Foulden Parish Church, Churchyard
Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Churchyard (Period Unassigned), Gravestone (16th Century)
Site Name Foulden Parish Church, Churchyard
Classification Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Churchyard (Period Unassigned), Gravestone (16th Century)
Alternative Name(s) George Ramsay's Gravestone
Canmore ID 60041
Site Number NT95NW 13.02
NGR NT 93092 55749
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60041
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Foulden
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
NT95NW 13.02 93092 55749
(NT 9310 5573) Tomb (NR)
OS 6"map, Berwickshire, 1st ed., (1862).
George Ramsay of Foulden Bastle (NT95NW 6) a well-known Border robber is buried in the centre of the churchyard. He died on 4 January 1592, and a tombstone bearing that date and a long inscription marks his grave.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 1908; Name Book 1856.
Confirmed.
Visited by OS(RD) 13 August 1970.
Field Visit (4 August 1908)
162. Font, Foulden Church.
Lying in the burial-ground adjoining the parish church of Foulden is the basin of an old baptismal font, octagonal in form, with slight half-round projections at each of the angles at the base and lesser projections between each pair. It is 27 inches in diameter, the bowl being 16 inches across and 7 inches deep. It is said to have been brought from Nunlands.
See Ber. Nat. Club, 1890-91, p. 130.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 4th August 1908
Photographic Survey (October 1964)
Photographic survey of buildings in Foulden village, Berwickshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in October 1961, including the Parish Church, manse and old tithe barn.
Photographic Record (1986)
Recording of gravestones in the churchyard of Foulden Parish Church, Berwickshire, by Mrs Betty Willsher 1986.
Sbc Note (15 April 2016)
Visibility: Standing structure or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
