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Show Famout Old Church This year sees the three hundred and sixty-fourth anniversary of the demo litlon of the magnificent Church of St. John al I'eitli. the restoration of which Is now contemplated. This is without doubt one of the most Interesting churches In Scotland, says the Weekly Edinburgh Scotsman. Tradition ascribes Its foundation to the Plots, but. whoever founded It, It Is one of the earliest stone churches built In the country; and, In the Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries, as evinced both by ancient documents and by the surviving remnants of the edifice of Unit time. It was magnificent I and extenshe. The monk of Dunfermline, Dunferm-line, to whom It was granted, nllowod It to full In.o disrepair a state of affairs af-fairs which Itobert the Itruce set about remedying, but the restoration was stayed by Ids death. |
