View from SSE showing S front of nave with S and E fronts of tower

Description View from SSE showing S front of nave with S and E fronts of tower

Date 1979

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 791968

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Dirleton Parish Church and Burial-Ground, East Lothian, from south-south-east This view from the south-south-east, taken in 1979, shows the main frontage of the church, with its low early 17th-century body. The top of the tower was redesigned in 1836. The projecting wing is the Archerfield Aisle, one of the finest pieces of mid-17th-century ecclesiastical architecture in Scotland. Dirleton Castle was built from the 12th century, and the village of Dirleton grew up round it. The ruins of the castle, now in the care of Historic Scotland, still dominate the settlement, which is now a dormitory village, one of the most attractive of its kind in Scotland. This church was built in about 1612 to serve a parish with a scattered rural population. It is one of the few churches of its period surviving in Scotland. An aisle was added in 1664 by James Maxwell, Earl of Dirleton. It is known as the Archerfield Aisle, after a nearby mansion house. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH80

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