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modern church is an old font brought
from Dalgarnock. It is a plain octagonal
basin with a drain in the bottom 2'.3" in diameter over all - 1'.9" in diameter
across the actual basin - 1'.3" in depth ex:
:ternally and 8" in the interior. The name
Dalgarno is cut on the edge in late lettering.
Adjacent to the font lies a fragment of a
cross-shaft with two vertical panels of inter:
:laced work formed from a four cord plait
Within the belfry that surmounts the
East gable of the ruined church hangs a
bell with the date 1606, and two lines of
inscription which the sexton has undertaken
to obtain for me. A ladder was procured
and with much trepidation I clambered up
the wall to the belfry but the aperture was
too small at the side of the belfry for me
to do more than read the date. I did not
at all relish a crawl up the ivy mantled
wall as it was quite impossible to see the
condition or even the edge of the building
beneath.

[Opposite page - photograph inserted]

I took a photo of an oblong stone bearing
emblems similar to those on the slab in
Glencairn churchyard described on
p. [page] 33.

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