Identifier: sixthreportinven00scot (find matches)
Title: Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Scotland. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions
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Publisher: Edinburgh : H.M. Stationery Off.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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h wall, near the east end, is a plain ambry with check for door. Grave-slab.—Lying within the church, at the west end, is asepulchral slab measuring 5 feet 6 inches in length by 1 foot9 inches in breadth bearing a Latin cross. The ends of the arms arepointed and set between four fleurs-de-lis, the lower two of which arestemmed and rise along with the cross from the graduated base. Other two grave-slabs are illustrated in the Proceedings of theBerwickshire Naturalists Club, cited below. See Eccles. Arch., iii. p. 412 (plan and illus.); Ber. Nat. Club,1890-91, p. 168 (illus.). O.S.M., Ber., xx. SE. Visited 10th August 1908. 282. Westruther Church—This church was originally erected in1649, repaired in 1752, and rebuilt in 1840. It is no longer usedas a place of worship, and presents no features of interest. Font.—Set on a wooden stand within the church is a roundunornamented stone basin or font 11 inches in diameter and 5 inches Ancient and Historical Monuments—County of Berwick.
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To face-p. 159. inventory of monuments, etc., in county of berwick. 159 Parish of Westruther. in height. It is alleged to have been brought from the old church atBassendean. See Ber. Nat. Club, 1901-2, p. 109 (illus.); Caledonia, iii. p. 389. O.S.M., Ber., xxi. NW. Visited 6th October 1908. Castellated and Domestic Structures. 283. Evelaw Tower. — Situated about 2 miles north-east of West-ruther village is the ruinous keep of Evelaw Tower on an ;__ plan>with only part of the outer walls standing. The main block measures33 feet in length by 22 feet in width, and the wing, which is at thenorth-west angle, 14 feet 6 inches by 11 feet. The external anglesare all rounded. See Cast, and Bom. Arch., iii. p. 546 (plan and illus.). O.S.M., Ber., xv. SW. Visited 6th October 1908. 284. Wedderlie House. — This small mansion - house (fig. 149)occupies a lonely site at the base of the Lammermoors about 1 mileto the north of Westruther village. The older part of the buildingconsists of a keep

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