138 The Pre- Reformation Churches of Berwickshire. 



and of shorter diagonal ones at its eastern and lateral extremities, 

 all of them broadly chamfered, and resting on moulded corbels. 

 The arches opening into the transepts are of two chamfered 

 orders, rising from capitaled responds with mouldings of debased 

 character. These, however, are wholly restorations, although 

 they may probably be exact reproductions of the original 

 work. The superincumbent walls are carried above the roof 

 outside, and form gables which terminate the roofs of the 

 transepts at their inner extremities — a very unusual, if not 

 altogether unique, feature. 



No trace of a piscina-niche, aumbry, or recess of any kind, can 

 be seen inside the church. Their absence would seem to indicate 

 that the building was not quite finished, or, at least, had been 

 little used for Divine service, before the Reformation. 



There were two holy wells, which still exist, in Ladykirk parish ; 

 one dedicated to " Our Lady," and the other to St. Anne. 



LANGTON. 



Notices of the Church of Langton are to be found as far back 

 as the 12th century. In the beginning of that century, the 

 advowson belonged to Roger de Ov, a Northumbrian, who 

 bestowed the church, which was dedicated to St. Cuthbert, upon 

 the monks of Kelso Abbey ; and the gift was subsequently con- 

 firmed by his successor in the manor of Langton, William de 

 Veteri Ponte.^ The ancient graveyard, containing what seems to 

 have been the chancel of the church, long since converted into a 

 burial-vault, 22 feet wide by about 20 feet long externally, is 

 situated a little to the south-east of Langton House. At the 

 west end of this vault, and projecting about a foot laterally, 

 there is a small fragment of what must have been the N. 

 wall of the nave; but the whole bears evident marks of having 

 been repeatedly altered, and probably not one original detail is 

 left. The east elevation contains two small round-headed 

 windows of apparently 17th century date, 6 feet apart, each 27 

 inches high by 14 inches wide. Several 17th century tombstones 

 may be seen in the burying-ground. 



The present parish church, which superseded an older erection 

 of 1798, was built in 1872 at the village of Gavinton, about half 

 a mile from the original site. 



* Liber de Calchou, Nos. 138 to 142. 



