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"Newland Kirk has all the marks of great antiquity with the arches and ornaments
in the old Saxon Stile of architecture". -- Pennicuik's Description of Tweeddale page 183
"The Church which stood among lofty ash trees upon the bank of the Lyne
about a mile below the manor place of Romanno showed tokens of antiquity
in the middle of the last century. It had an aisle built early in the seventeenth century
by John Murray the founder of the family of Stanhope which had here its burial place". -- Origines Parochiales page 192
There is no record of the age of the church. The doorway at the west end in
the front is arched Semicircularly; the two windows and door in front at the
west end are Square and lintelled and Seem modern. - these two doors and windows
are in the front, and there was a large Gothic window in the east end which has
now been converted into a door to a gallery. -- New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Co. [County] Linlithgow page 145
Transcriber's notes
For further information see page 38.
Ordnance Survey - Peebles county, OS Name Books - Peebles county - Volume 31 - Parish of Newlands, OS1/24/31
This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Newlands.
Ordnance Survey - Peebles county
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Peebles, which is in the south of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.