Towards the west end there are two doorways, opposite one another, in the north and south walls. That in the south wall (Fig. 703) is a fine specimen of early first pointed work. The round arch is retained (as is common in Scotland), but the details are all of first pointed design. The section of the jamb and arch mouldings (Fig. 704) and the dog-tooth enrichment of the label are clear indications of that style. Mr. Jervise doubts whether these features are genuine, and suspects that they are late imitations of the first pointed style; but Mr. Muir has no doubt about the doorway being of “late transition work, belonging, apparently, to that precise period in the progress of the art when the already softened features of the Normans were beginning to merge altogether into the still more flexible and varied forms of the first pointed style.” This opinion is confirmed by all the features of the doorway. The bold foliaged caps on each side (of which the detached shafts are gone) are undoubted proofs of the genuine nature of the work. This doorway could never have been produced in later times. [Illustration: FIG. 704.--Auchindoir Church. South Doorway: Jamb and Arch Moulding.] The north doorway is simple, having a plain round arch with a splay on edge, and a recess for a bolt in the ingoing. The church contains a simple piscina in the south wall, and a very elaborate ambry, or sacrament house (Fig. 705), in the north wall near the east end. The decorated adjuncts of this ambry are about 6 feet in height. The opening is moulded, and has a quasi buttress on each side, crowned with a crocketed pinnacle in a late style of art. A pointed roof, or flat canopy, rises over the ambry, having on the top a representation of the crucifixion, with a skull carved at the base; over the cross is a scroll bearing the letters I N R I. There are two scrolls on the roof, carved with the inscription, HIC·Ē CORP DUĒ C V M, and on the sill of the ambry, M·A·S·, which inscription Mr. Jervise renders thus: “Here is the body of our Lord, with Mary, the Apostles, and Saints.” The ambry has an inner recess on the left side. This work is evidently very late in style, but it can scarcely be so late as Mr. Jervise supposes. He says:--“I am inclined to ascribe the erection of the Sacrament House, if not the Kirk, of Auchindoir to the laird and lady whose arms and initials are upon shields within it. One of these shields, dated 1557, bears the Gordon arms and motto, HOIP IN [Illustration: FIG. 705.--Auchindoir Church. Sacrament House.] GOD; the second, initialed V·G:C·C·, presents the arms of Gordon and Cheyne, impaled with the motto, GRACE ME GYID.”