126 The Pre-Refortnation Churches of Berwickshire. 



ornament in vpry slight relief. The second order displays on 

 both face and soffit a lozenge-moulding, embracing on the 

 chamfer-plane a series of large nail-heads, and enriched on the 

 outer face by lines of small pellets. The inner order is chevroned 

 on the face, the soffit being quite plain. The bases of the shafts 

 which support it are about 18 inches below the present level of 

 the ground, and each was found, on being exposed, to consist of 

 a round member, slightly moulded, and resting on a square 

 plinth. The daylight measures 11 feet by 4 feet 8 inches. 

 The appearance of the doorway, when entire, is well shown 

 by Mr Dickson's excellent drawing, in which the details are 

 reproduced with scrupulous fidelity. (Plate III.) 



Notwithstanding the beauty of its doorway, the church, in its 

 primitive state, must have been a structure the reverse of im- 

 posing, for wetitid from the Account Rolls of Coldingham Priory 

 that in 1331-2 the chaacel was thatched with straw. "^'^ 



In 1499, Robert Blackadder, Archbishop of Glasgow, "whose 

 family derived its surname from Blackadder in Ederham parish," 

 built a trauseptal chapel to the south side of the church, of which 

 the greater portion still remains, altliough it has been several 

 times altered and repaired to adapt it to the rest of the building. 

 The internal arch comniuuioating with the main portion of the 

 church — a plaiu bevel-edged example, of one order merely — 

 and two buttresses placed against the external an;^les, are the 



Fig. 11. 

 * Coldingham Letters, etc., Surtees Society, p. lii. 



