ed floral pattern. The chief feature is the main entrance door in a
porch, projecting to the south, the archway of which is supported on two
plain pillars with Norman capitals. There are over this door the
remains of a line, concentric with the arch, of sculptured figures and
animals, very similar to those found on the ancient sculptured monuments
of Scotland. Associated with the Agnus Dei, Leo, Sagittarius, serpents,
birds, dragons, and human figures, we have one perhaps bearing a
pastoral staff. From the rough nature of the masonry at the west end of
the nave it is probable that a tower was intended to be built
there.[283] On the north side projecting wings have been added to the
church, but the south front and east end are almost untouched and show
twelfth century work, uninjured save by weather and natural decay. The
church is believed to have been dedicated to St. Adamnan, and this is
rendered very probable by the fact that the neighbouring church of
Cramond was dedicated to St. Columba.

_Leuchars Church, Fifeshire._--We hear of a church here in 1187, and it
was given to the canons of St. Andrews (1171-1199). The church now
consists of a choir with a circular apse; there are traces of an arch at
the west end of the choir which opened into the nave, that has been
rebuilt. In the seventeenth century a turret was built, which is
incongruous and out of place; and to support the belfry a plain arch has
been introduced in the interior amongst the Norman work of the apse. The
exterior of the semicircular apse shows an arcade of two storeys,

"the shafts of the upper tier resting on the arches of the lower
one, and all the shafts bearing cushion caps. Those of the lower
story are double shafts, and those of the upper story are double
shafts, with a broad fillet between them. All the arches are
enriched with chevron and billet mouldings, and the upper tier has
an extra order of elaborate billet-work. The string-course between
the two arcades is carved with zigzags. The cornice is supported on
a series of boldly-carved grotesque heads, all varying in
design.... The design of the exterior of the choir is similar to
that of the apse, there being two arcades, one above the other,
surmounted by a cornice, with corbels carved as grotesque heads. The
lower arcade, however, has interlacing arches, which indicate a late
period of the style. The two arcades are separated by a