Architecture Notes
Event ID 840230
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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NMRS REFERENCE:
ARCHITECT: George Henderson (restored tower).
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh contains among the 'uncatalogued MSS of General Hutton', and numbered 89, 90 and 95, Vol, No. 1, two drawings of St. Andrew's Parish Church (called by Hutton the Collegiate Church) which was situated at the Western extremity of the Old Town, and of which little more than the Steeple can 'now' be seen above ground; and, a Pencil Sketch of the Cross Church or Monastery of the Holy Cross, which stood a few hundred yards North from the Old Town. This Sketch, dated about 1800, is accompanied by a drawing of the South Door. Out of all the square surrounded by Conventual Buildings of the Cross Church, nothing is now to be seen but a fragment of the Church.
Scottish Record Office
"There was building a new church upon the site of the old castle which had sometime past been occupied as a bowling green".
Sir John Clerk's description of a journey to Peebles.
1780 GD 18/2119