120 The Pre- Reformation Churches of Beriuickshire. 



of the teinds of the Eectory of Duns is returned at £10. In 

 1296, its Eector, Henry de Lematon, took the oath of allegiance 

 to Edward I. at Berwick. About the middle of the succeeding 

 century, it was annexed as a prebend to the Collegiate Church of 

 Dunbar. 



At what date the Chukch was built there is no documentary 

 evidence to show ; and, unfortunately, any clue that might have 

 been afforded by the building itself is no longer available, the 

 greater part of it having been taken down, and a new structure 

 erected on its site, in 1790. An old plan in the possession of Mr 

 Charles Watson, Duns, which I am enabled by his kind per- 

 mission to reproduce, shows that it was cruciform. (Fig. 10.) 



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Fig. 10. 



After the Reformation, the chancel seems to have been converted 

 into a burial-aisle by the Wedderburn family, the north and 

 south transepts being simultaneously appropriated for the same 

 purpose by the proprietors of Duns Castle and Manderston 



