134 The Pre- Reformation Churches of Berwickshire. 



St Mary at Upsetlington, which had been erected not many 

 years before, became the church of the parish thus constituted. 

 The original parish church of Upsetlington, as well as that of 

 Horiidean, has long since disappeared ; but the site of the former 

 is still pointed out in a clump of trees called the " Chapel 

 Round," about a quarter of a mile to the north of the hamlet of 

 Upsetlington; and the relinquished graveyard of the latter, about 

 half a mile east from Horndean village, remains to this day. 

 Both churches, for several centuries before the Reformation, 

 belonged to Kelso Abbey,* although the priory of Coldingham, 

 to which, perhaps, they may have been originally subordinate, 

 held considerable possessions in Horndean parish. No trace 

 whatever is left of the Hospital of St. Leonaed, in the same 

 parish; but the charter by Robert Byseth, Lord of Upsetlington, 

 conferring it un Kelso Abbey, indicates that it stood between 

 Horndean and the Tweed— y^x^^ Tooede ex opposito de Horwerden. 



The Church of Ladykiek is an interesting building, and is well 

 deserving of the attention of the ecclesiologist. It cannot be 

 said, perhaps, to possess much architectural merit, but it was 

 one of the last pre-Reformation churches erected in Scotland, 

 is quite entire, and presents several peculiar, if not wholly 

 unique, features. It was founded in 1500 by James IV., 

 who dedicated it to the Virgin. Its situation on the north- 

 west bank of the Tweed is most delightful, and the entire neigh- 

 bourhood is rich in historical associations. A little to the east 

 is Holywell Haugh, where in 1291, Edward I. of England met 

 the competitors for the Scottish Crown ; across the river, almost 

 directly opposite, are the frowning ruins of Norham Castle ; far 

 away to the south stretch the dark slopes of Fiodden ; and 

 behind these rise the broad blue summits of " Cheviot's moun- 

 tains lone." 



The church is cruciform in plan, and consists of an aiseless 

 nave with a tower at the west end, a chancel with a semi- 

 hexagonal termination, and N. and S. transepts, or transeptal 

 chapels, similar in form to the chancel. (Fig. 13.) Internally, 

 the nave measures 41 feet 8 inches in length, by 23 feet 3 inches 

 in width ; the chancel is 36 feet long, and of the same width as 

 the nave ; and the internal projection of the chapels is 15 feet 10 



* Liber de Calchou, Nos. 240, 417, 421, 469, etc. Rotalus Redituum 

 Aubiquus Abbatie de Calchou, pp. 466, 467. 



