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Publication Account
Date 1980
Event ID 1018218
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018218
One of the earliest references to Selkirk church, occurs in 1150 when David I granted that church to Kelso Abbey (ESC, 1905, 185). The church was apparently ruinous at the beginning of the sixteenth century and rebuilt at the time of the Reformation (Sharpe, n.d.,31). That church was described by Christopher Lowtherer in 1629 as a very pretty structure, 'the form of it, a crosshouse, the steeple at each corner and pyramidal turrets' (RCAM. 1957, 47). Selkirk's minister at the turn of the eighteenth century complained to the Presbytery that church and manse were in a desolate condition so that 'he was neither able to preach in one nor live in the other' (Sharpe, n.d.,16). It was not until 1747 that the church was rebuilt. In its turn, its roof was removed in 1861; today it stands an empty shell.
Information from ‘Historic Selkirk: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1980).
