A pointed doorway leading to the choir adjoins the monument (Fig. 713), and the altar steps are seen rising beyond it. Part of the pavement still remains at the east end, and in the centre is a flat monumental slab (Fig. 714), much decayed, but on which can still be made out the following inscription:--“(Hic jacet) honorabilis vir Kentigernus Hepburn (dominus?) de Wauchtoun;” and the sacred monogram “I.N.R.I.” on the upper part of the cross. Kentigern Hepburn was son and heir apparent of David Hepburn of Wauchton. He received, on 5th September 1498, a charter from his father of certain lands--viz., the lands of Quhiltinfuld in Edinburgh, half a plougate in Cockburnspath and lands of Elstanefurd, with superiority of lands of Towly in Fife and Elstanefurd. He also held, from his father, a charter of the lands and barony of Luffness. He married Margaret Lauder (see Great Seal, 1424-1513). The arms on the shield in the centre of the cross are those of the Hepburns. The style of the slab would indicate that of the fifteenth century. [Illustration: FIG. 714.--Luffness Monastery. Monument in Choir.] ALTYRE CHURCH, MORAYSHIRE. About four miles south of Forres, and in the middle of an extensive forest, not far from Altyre House, stand the ruins of an ancient first pointed church. The parish of Altyre belonged formerly to the parsonage of Dallas, but in 1659 it was disjoined from Dallas and added to the parish of Rufford. The ruins of the church, which stand in a dense thicket of bushes, are in fair preservation. The building is very plain, consisting of a simple oblong chamber (Fig. 715) about 50 feet in length by 15 feet in width internally. There appear to have been no buttresses originally, but one has been added at the north-east angle (Fig. 716), and [Illustration: FIG. 715.--Altyre Church. Plan.] [Illustration: FIG. 716.--Altyre Church. View from North-East.] a very massive prop has been built at the north-west angle, the ground on the north being a bank sloping downwards from the church. There are two doorways opposite one another near the west end, one in the north wall and one in the south wall. In the east wall there is a two-light window with simple branched mullion. The side windows are plain lancets, there being two in the north wall and three in the south wall. The west wall is blank. The walls and gables are still standing. Although the church may be classed as first pointed, it is evidently of the latest period of that style. ST. MARY’S CHAPEL, RATTRAY, ABERDEENSHIRE. [Illustration: FIG. 717.--St. Mary’s Chapel. Plan.]