118 Tke Pre- Reformation Churches of Berwickshire, 



at the south-west side of the town, sloping down towards the site 

 of the buildings. According to tradition, many of the noble 

 Scottish dead who fell at Flodden were brought to Coldstream, 

 and interred in the burial-ground of the priory ; and in 1834, 

 while excavations were being made at the place, many human 

 bones and a stone coffin were exposed to view. 



The parish church of Coldstream now in use was erected in 

 1716. Before that year the parish was called Lennel. The 

 ancient Church of Lennel stood on the north bank of the Tweed, 

 rather more than a mile to the north-east of Coldstream. The 

 W. gable, portions of the N. and S. walls of the nave, and 

 indications of a narrower chancel are still extant. The nave has 

 been about 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 W. elevation 

 has evidently undergone alterations at a late period. It is 

 crowstepped, and is pierced by two rectangular windows, both 

 plainly bevelled on the outside ; the upper 3|- feet by 22 inches ; 

 the lower, which is blocked, 26 inches by 18 inches. 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. 



The Chapel of Hiksel " had disappeared before 1627, though 

 the churchyard was then in use." * No trace of either can now 

 be found. 



CRANSHAWS. 



Prior to the 15th century, the barony of Cranshaws, with the 

 patronage of the church, belonged to the great House of Douglas. 

 In 1401 it was conveyed by Archibald, the fourth Earl, to Sir 

 John Swinton of that Ilk, and it remained in the possession of 

 the Swinton family until the close of the 17 th century. 



The Church was rated in the Ancient Papal Taxation Eoll at 

 XLs., its value being returned at xxi.f The date of its erection 



* Accouut of the State of Certain Parishes in Scotland, 1627, Maitland 

 Club. Preface to Chartulary of Coldstream, p. ix. 



t Coldingham Letters and Account Rolls, Surtees' Society, Appendix, 

 p. ex. The spelling here is " Craueshauues." 



