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Sarah, his daughter, upon her marriage with Robert Blake, 

 and descended to Sir Francis Blake, Bart., grandfather of the 

 present Baronet.* (It is of interest to recall his descent from 

 an ancient Irish family of knightly and baronial rank, settled 

 for centuries in Galway in the West of Ireland.) 



Having examined the building and secured a successful 

 photograph (Plate I.), the party crossed the Tweed, and 

 ascending the North bank, from which a charming view of 

 the Border river was obtained, entered the carriages in 

 waiting, and, skirting the farms of Lennelhill and Oxenrig, 

 reached the churchyard of Lennel, which served also as a 

 rendezvous for the members travelling from Duns. This 

 burial-ground, though some distance from Coldstream, still 

 serves the needs of that parish, witnessing thereby to its 

 relation with the ancient Church, whose ruins formed the 



object of antiquarian interest. In his valuable 

 Lennel contribution to the Proceedings dealing with 



Church. the pre-Reformation Churches of Berwickshire,! 



Mr John Ferguson, F.S A. (Scot.), remarks 

 regai-ding the portion of it still standing: — "The West gable, 

 portions of the North and South walls of the nave, and 

 indications of a narrower chancel are still extant. The nave 

 has been 54 feet long by 22^ feet wide externally ; but the 

 dimensions of the chancel cannot be satisfactorily determined. 

 On the South side of the nave are traces of a doorway, with 

 a segmental head and slightly moulded jambs, and of two 

 hollow-chamfered windows, which have opened to the interior 

 with a wide lateral splay, and a segmental rear-arch. The 

 Western elevation has evidently undergone alterations at a 

 late period. It is crow-stepped and pierced by two rectangular 

 windows, both plainly bevelled on the outside. Such details 

 as are still visible are meagre in the extreme ; but some of 

 them can hardly be later than the close of the 12th century." 

 Along with the chui'ches at Hii'sel and Bassendean, Lennel 

 belonged till the Reformation to the Cistercian Priory of 



* For the foregoing particulars we are indebted to Raine's History 

 of North Durham. — Ed. 



t Ber. Nat. Club, Vol. xni., p. 118. 



