2 DALMENY CHURCH. The Church has been fitted up condition. The two departments into which the rest of the Church is divided, appear to have been in some measure restored on the pattern of the chancel. with pews and a gallery, and it is much to be regretted that portions of the shafts of the pillars, and some other parts of the internal stone work, have been cut away for the purpose of economising the space, and facilitating the transit through the Church. The fabric was repaired, and in so far as restoration seemed necessary, put in its present position in 1816.* HISTORICAL SKETCH. It is very rare to find any record of the original construction of churches in Scotland so old as the Norman period, and little or nothing is known of the history of Dalmeny. In the slight references to it, occurring in early records it is called Dumayn, Dumanie, or Du-manan. Chalmers says, "There is a charter of Waldere, the Earl of Dunbar, from 1166 to 1182, to the monks of Dunfermline, which was witnessed by Helia de Dundas and Robert Avenel the parson of Dumanie. During the reign of William or Alexander II., the church of this parish was granted to the monks of Jedworth: and was confirmed by the Diocesan." The Church thus appears to have been a parsonage, and the tithes continued to be drawn by the monks of Jedburgh down to the Reformation, the cure being served by a vicar. During the fifteenth century the tithes seem to have been leased to the holders of the land, or compounded for, as in May 1471, the Lords Auditors assigned a day to the Lairds of Dundas, Barnbugle and Craigie, to prove that Robert, late Lord Boyd, had a sufficient lease from the Abbot of Jedworth, of the tithes of this Church.† Several altarages appear to have been here established; one was dedicated to St. Cuthbert, another to St. Brigid, and a third to St. Adaman.‡ * New Stat. Account, Linlithgowshire, p. 102. + Chalmers' Caledonia, II. New Stat. Account, Linlithgow, p. 102. p. 882. i |