The tower itself is plain with simple pointed lights, those of the upper story being double, so as to be suitable for the belfry. In the west wall there occurs a small window with peculiarly shaped head, and below it the string course is studded with square shaped flowers. In the present church is preserved a good recumbent effigy (Fig. 1519) of one of the Fernies of Fernie, but it is without date. The arms over [Illustration: FIG. 1518.--St. Michael’s Church, Cupar. Tower.] the monument--a fesse between 3 lions’ heads erased--are those of Fernie of that Ilk. Several members of this family were Constables of Cupar in [Illustration: FIG. 1519.--St. Michael’s Church, Cupar. Monument of one of the Fernies of Fernie.] ancient times. The lands of Fernie lie a few miles to the west of the town. ST. BRIDGET’S CHURCH, DALGETY, FIFESHIRE. A remarkable structure, which stands near the Forth at the head of a small bay about two miles south-west from Aberdour, the road to it passing through the beautiful grounds of St. Colm House. The old church (Fig. 1520) forms the eastern part of the structure, while to the west has been erected a two-story building, containing on the ground floor a burial vault, and on the upper floor a “laird’s loft” or room for the Lord of the Manor, from which access was obtained to a gallery in the church. The ancient church was dedicated to St. Bridget in 1244. It retains a simple pointed doorway at the south-west angle, a number of altered and square-headed windows in the south wall, and a piscina at the east end of the same wall, but there are scarcely any of the old details preserved to indicate the date of the building. It has evidently been greatly altered, to make it suitable for Presbyterian worship after the Reformation. There are two projecting buildings on the north side and one on the south [Illustration: FIG. 1520.--St. Bridget’s Church, Dalgety. Plan of Ground Floor.] side, all much ruined, but the mouldings of the jambs of the northern projections at the openings into the church are preserved and indicate Renaissance work. These outside structures were probably burial vaults. [Illustration: FIG. 1521.--St. Bridget’s Church, Dalgety. View from South-West.] The house at the west end is undoubtedly post-Reformation. In the vault is buried the celebrated Chancellor Seaton, and the building, to judge [Illustration: FIG. 1522.--St. Bridget’s Church, Dalgety. Plan of First Floor.] from its style (Fig. 1521), was probably erected by him about the beginning of the seventeenth century. The upper floor is reached by a projecting octagonal stair turret on the north side. The interior of the walls of the principal room on the first floor (Fig. 1522) is built with ashlar work, and the walls are divided into moulded panels in stone work and a stone cornice runs round the room.