Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716737

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT35SE 10.00 39040 52569

NT35SE 10.01 Centred NT 3905 5260 Cemetery

The old chapel of Heriot was under Newbattle Abbey and Gavin Douglas, famed author and poet, was reputed to have been a rector there in 1516. The bell on the church is dated 1518 (Statistical Account [OSA] 1794).

J C Carrick 1907

It is believed locally that the present church at NT 3903 5255 occupies the site of the old chapel but no further information could be found.

Visited by OS (RD) 17 February 1970