Melrose, Weirhill, St Mary's Road, St Cuthbert's Parish Church
Church (17th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Site Name Melrose, Weirhill, St Mary's Road, St Cuthbert's Parish Church
Classification Church (17th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Melrose Parish Church: War Memorial Plaque
Canmore ID 100263
Site Number NT53SW 104
NGR NT 54330 34347
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100263
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Melrose
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT53SW 104.00 54330 34347
NT53SW 104.01 NT 54373 34336 War Memorial
NT53SW 104.02 NT 53995 34406 Manse
NMRS REFERENCE
Tower 1811.
Remainder, reconstruction after fire, John More Dick Peddie, 1911.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Photographic Survey (July 1957)
Photographs by the Scottish National Buildings Record in July 1957.
Publication Account (1998)
The parish church of Melrose figure 22.L. Prior to 1815, the parish church was housed in the western part of the nave of the abbey church. By 1618, a decision had been made to form a parish church from the partial ruins of the old abbey. Architectural evidence suggests that the western archway of the crossing had already been blocked; and it was in the original abbatial aisle or nave that the new barrel-vaulted parish church figure 20.X was constructed. The interior of the church was modified on a number of occasions, in order to house the parishioners (see pp 67, 69). Little remains of this seventeenth-century church, but traces of it may still be seen in, for example, part of the barrel-vaulted roof and supporting wall to the north in the ruined nave of Melrose Abbey.
Of the 1815 parish church only the steeple remains as a testament to the initiative of the Melrose people. The old parish church, housed in the abbey, had fallen into neglect and disrepair; and, rather than attempting to effect necessary changes, the decision was taken to build a totally new parish church. In the early twentieth century, most of this was destroyed by fire.
Information from ‘Historic Melrose: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1998).
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding building.
Information from Scottish Borders Council.
