 The church was damaged during the Protectorate and afterwards repaired, except for the Little Kirk, which was converted into a burial aisle.The Little Kirk was unroofed in 1745.By the time of its demolition, St Cuthbert's was an amorphous collection of extensions; William Sime described an interior of "petty galleries stuck up one above another, to the very rafters, like so many pigeons' nests".