116 The Pre- Reformation Churches of Berwickshire. 



Fragments of painted glass, a shoe found in Prior ^rnald's 

 co£B.n, and other interesting relics turned up in excavating the 

 ground near the priory, are preserved and exhibited in a modern 

 porch on the south side of the building, ^ An altar-stone found 

 in the churchyard in 1877, and figured and described by Dr 

 Hardy in the Club's Proceedings for the following year, is now 

 in the Museum of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries in Edin- 

 burgh. Twenty one years before, Dr Stuart of Chirnside 

 discovered at a farm in Hutton parish, and rescued from name- 

 less desecration there, a font which was known to have belonged 

 to the church. 



The priory of Coldingham possessed the privilege of sanctuary; 

 and a number of crosses were erected on conspicuous heights in 

 the neighbourhood, probably to mark tlie strict boundaries of 

 the asylum. Whitecross, Applin Cro^^s (Applying Cross ?) Cairn- 

 cross, and Crosslaw are names borne to this day by places in the 

 locality where such landmarks formerly stood. 



In a wooded hollow called The Dean, near the village, is a 

 spring known as ' St. Andrew's Well,' which formerly supplied 

 the priory with water. It is still in use. 



Little need be said of the remains on St. Abbs Head. On the 

 site of the first convent there is nothing to be seen but a mere 

 fragment of rude wall — the mortar as hard as stone — and the 

 foundations of a chapel, 72 feet long by 21 feet wide. About a 

 mile to the east, is the site of another chapel, with a burying- 

 ground. A few years before Mr Carr wrote, the walls of this 

 last mentioned chapel, to the height of three or four feet, and a 

 small round-headed arch were visible. Now, a series of grassy 

 mounds, with pieces of masonry appearing here and there above 

 the surface, are the sole remains. The outlines of the founda- 

 tions can be vaguely traced, and indicate a building about 70 

 feet long by about 20 feet wide. The chancel seems to have 

 been narrower than the nave. From entries in the accounts of 

 the priory, it would appear that one or other of these chapels 

 had been erected, or restored, in 1372-3 ;* but the ruins do not 

 furnish the means of forming even a probable conjecture as to 

 their age.f 



* Coldingham Letters and Account Rolls, Surtees' Society, pp. Ixvii., Ixx. 

 t Both chapels were visited by Mr Tate, Alnwick, in 1859, and 

 described by him in the Club's Proceedings for that year. 



