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Field Visit
Date 27 March 1915
Event ID 1133033
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1133033
Tomb, Churchyard, Canonbie.
A fragment of 13th-century ecclesiastical work is preserved within the churchyard of Canonbie Parish. It lies to the south of the modern church and within recent years has been utilised in the construction of a tomb enclosure - that of the Rev. James Donaldson, late minister of Canonbie.
It consists of a recess, 4 feet 8 inches wide and 4 feet 4 inches high, with a segmental arch of roll-and-hollow mouldings enriched with a dog-tooth ornament. These mouldings are carried down the jambs to a stop at a sill; above is a hood-moulding terminating at either side in label-stops-one knotted and zoomorphic, the other floriated. The back appears to be modern. From its position in a portion of the south wall of the old parish church it has been suggested that this fragment was the sedilia, although the design is unusual for such a construction.
Several graveslabs of no great interest, dating from the end of the 16th century, are built into the north wall of the churchyard near the entrance.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 27 March 1915.
