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Traquair, Old Parish Church
Church (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Traquair, Old Parish Church
Classification Church (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 53186
Site Number NT33SW 12
NGR NT 3185 3328
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/53186
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Traquair
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT33SW 12 3185 3328.
NT 314 329: The old parish church of Traquair is said to have stood about 1/2 mile SW of the existing church and close to the old road that leads over to the Yarrow valley. Its reputed site, in the angle between this road and a plantation which extends downhill towards the SE, is marked by two lengths of what seems to have been an enclosing dyke, as well as by traces of superficial disturbance. It is understood that excavations under-taken here early in the 20th c revealed some structural remains, but no details can now be obtained.
The church of Traquair is on record as early as the 12th c. The present church dates only from 1778 but stands within a graveyard containing 17th c tombstones. The tradition that an earlier church stood upon the site now under discussion does not appear to have been known to Pennecuik or Armstrong, nor to the writers of the first two Statistical Accounts, and should perhaps be treated with reserve.
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1958
NT 3185 3328. This church is believed locally to have stood on this spot.
Visited by OS (BS) 10 September 1974
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE
Pinning and harling of west gable of kirk.
Contract between the heritors and William Hislop, mason and John Paterson, wright.
1694 GD 178/Box 3
