The western wall, with its doorway, which has plain sloping jambs all covered with rough-cast, is, doubtless, a comparatively recent construction, built when the choir was converted into the parish church and reroofed in 1749. There are traces of old buildings to the west, which are now used as private burial-grounds, but it is impossible to say what purpose they formerly served. ST. KENTIGERN’S, LANARK, LANARKSHIRE. The Parish Church of Lanark existed in the twelfth century, and was conveyed, with its possessions, to the Abbey of Dryburgh by David I. This conveyance is frequently confirmed in subsequent deeds. [Illustration: FIG. 672.--St. Kentigern’s. Plan.] [Illustration: FIG. 673.--St. Kentigern’s. View from North-West.] The church, from time to time, received numerous gifts of lands and houses from the burgesses and the neighbouring proprietors. Amongst other endowments, a chaplaincy was founded in the beginning of the fifteenth century by John Simpson, burgess of the town. The income of the church and its lands was drawn by the monks of Dryburgh, and the cure was served by a vicar and curates. At the Reformation the lands went with the Abbey of Dryburgh, which was erected into a temporal barony.[102] The Church of St. Kentigern was used for service long after the Reformation, and was only abandoned when a new church was erected in the middle of the town in 1777. [Illustration: BASE OF DOORWAY AT A FIG. 674.--St. Kentigern’s. Plan and Base of Doorway Shaft.] [Illustration: FIG. 675. St. Kentigern’s. Caps of Piers.] [Illustration: FIG. 676.--St. Kentigern’s. South Elevation.] St. Kentigern’s stands in the old burial-ground, about one-quarter of a mile south-east from the town. It has been of an unusual arrangement of plan (Fig. 672), consisting of a double chamber, divided by a row of pillars and arches down the centre, each division possibly, and one division certainly, having a chancel at the east end. The northern division has almost entirely disappeared, but the central row of pillars and arches (Fig. 673) and the walls of the southern division are still fairly preserved. At the point =A= on Plan is the base of a doorway shaft (Fig. 674), which was discovered some years ago by excavation. This possibly represents the north doorway of the church. If so, the north division was about 2 feet wider than the south division. The south division is 74 feet in length by 20 feet in width internally. The five pillars are alternately round and octagonal, and the two responds are half octagons. The caps (Fig. 675) are of varied and good design, and the arches have a double splay on each side. [Illustration: FIG. 677.--St. Kentigern’s. South Doorway.]