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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 720756
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/720756
NT74SW 2.00 70010 40844
NT74SW 2.01 NT 700 407 Cross
NT74SW 36 NT 70 40 Bell
(NT 7000 4082) Hume Church (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Roxburghshire, 2nd ed.,(1909).
The Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB), describing the 'Earl's Aisle', notes that it was originally a small unroofed enclosure; this was taken down and the present roofed building erected. (It could be that the lower courses of the present building belong to the earlier enclosure, and not to the church, as suggested by OS field surveyor {JFC}.
Name Book 1858.
Hume Church was dedicated to St Nicholas, and during the reign of Malcolm IV (1153-65), Earl Cospatrick gave it to the monks of Kelso. There is nothing known of the old church building; only the foundations in the shape of irregular mounds can be traced in the old burial ground. The only remnant still in existence is an ancient Celtic ecclesiastical bell, now in Kelso Museum.
J Robson 1896; J Ferguson 1892.
The remains are represented by the turf-covered lower courses of a rectangular building, 7.8m by 27.5m externally, average height 0.5m. At the E end the ground slopes, so that the wall rises to 1.2m above ground level.
The S wall of the burial vault, the 'Earl's Aisle', is built on the line of the N wall of the church; the lower courses of the vault wall are of different type and size of masonry from the remainder, and may be part of the church wall in situ.
There is now no museum at Kelso, and the present location of the bell is unknown.
Visited by OS(JFC) 24 January 1955.
The nave of the church now forms part of the burial ground and appears to have done so from at least the 18th century, for the earliest legible dated gravestone within the outline of the building is '1723'. Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS(RDL) 23 August 1963.
Generally as described in the previous field reports, the remains are known locally as Hume Church.
Visited by OS(RD) 20 July 1966.
(NT 7000 4082) St Nicholas' Ch (NR) (rems of)
OS 6"map, (1971).
Only the turf-covered footings of this church remain. It served as the parish church of Hume until the parish was united with Stichill in 1640.
RCAHMS 1980; I B Cowan 1967.