 This resulted in the widespread destruction of Medieval church furnishings, ornaments and decoration.New churches were built and existing churches adapted for reformed services, particularly by placing the pulpit centrally in the church, as preaching was at the centre of worship.Many of the earliest buildings were simple gabled rectangles, a style that continued into the seventeenth century, as at Dunnottar Castle in the 1580s, Greenock's Old West Kirk (1591) and Durness (1619).