Orchardton Tower House

Dumfries and Galloway The only free standing circular tower house in Scotland. It is 4 storeys high with a parapet and a walk. Substantial remains of barmkin building survive. The tower was built in 1436 by John Cairns

St Marys Old Parish Church, Dairsie
Archbishop John Spottiswood owned the castle here for a time. There has been a parish church adjacent to the castle since at least the 1160’s, but in 1621 the archbishop decided to rebuild it as a model of what a church fitted for reformed episcoplian worship should be. The result is a hodgepodge of Gothic and Classical styles. Dairsie was a buttressed aisle-less rectangle and the tracery on the windows imitates designs in medieval churches. It was given a handsome classical frontispiece to the entrance and a bell turret was built out at one angle. Much of the internal arrangements were removed following a damning report by the presbytery in 1648 during the period of civil war. The church is no longer in public use and is owned by the St Andrews Preservation Trust. Just below the church is Dairsie Bridge c 1530 which spans the River Eden. It has 3 round arches .

Collessie Church
Rebuilt in 1839 by RR Dickson, Collessie Church sits on top of and ancient parish church. This is a T-shaped turreted building which sits at the centre of the small settlement of Collessie which is now a conservation area containing a number of well preserved 17th, 18th and 19th century weavers cottages

Canonbie Parish Church
Canonbie Parish Church 1821-2 by William Atkinson – this is a rather heavy castellated Gothic style building with an interesting churchyard. Canonbie is in south east Dumfries and Galloway

St Devenic’s Church , Creich
The small village of Creich lies in the hills of north Fife, to the northeast of Brunton. This is the ruined 14th century St Devenic’s Church of Creich with its 16th-century aisle. It is surrounded by the graveyard and is in the immediate vicinity of the castle. In the interior of one of the walls are two niches, on the top of one of which is a coat of arms, which appears to be that of the Barclays of Collairnie.

Abernethy Round Tower NO 190165 58 HS

This was the site of a Culdee Celtic Christian establishment, which was re-founded as a collegiate establishment in the 14th century. The slender round tower which is of Irish style was probably built by the Culdees in the 9th or 10th century and is one of only two examples in Scotland – the other being at Brechin. Nothing remains of the Collegiate church..

Images of St Nicholas, Pyrford, Surrey The church of St Nicholas was built around 1140 and is one of the few complete buildings of the Norman period left in Surrey. Some additions have been made – the bell tower and porch are Tudor and the vestry is Victorian The three-foot thick walls are supported by buttresses of which 3 date from the 15th century. The pulpit is dated 1628 with the initials N B which relates to Nicholas Burley who lived locally at that time. Two layers of wall paintings were discovered in 1869. One of these could not be preserved and its removal revealed traces of Norman work. In repairs to this in 1967 another painting was discovered thought to date to the building of the church in 1140. Both of these paintings are in red ochre, the earlier one showing mounted horsemen and a row of men with staves.

The east window is 14th century and contains some of the original glass. Axe marks of the Norman masons can still be seen on the stone of the chancel arch. There are still three consecration crosses made by the bishop when the church was consecrated remaining.

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