140 The Pre- Reformation Churches of Berwickshire. 



Dr Hardy (Report of Club Meetings for 1880) believes 

 the initials M. A. H. to be those of Master Andrew Home, 

 " Pensionary and Rector of Lauder, who secured the property 

 for himself and his illegitimate son William, when Dryburgh 

 Abbey was dissolved." The site of the churchyard, a little to 

 the north-west of the farm house, is still pointed out, but it con- 

 tains nothing of interest. 



LEGEEWOOD 



Was held by the Abbey of Paisley from the 13th century 

 until the Reformation ; but the Church, as is evident from the 

 details which still remain, was built in the Norman period, and 

 is probably not later than 1130.* It has consisted ot a nave 

 and a narrower and very short chancel. The nave, which 

 is about 50 feet long by 27 feet wide externally, has been 

 used as the parish church since the Reformation ; but a series of 

 repairs and alterations, the first of which seems to have 

 been executed in 1717, with the usual disregard to the 

 original character of the building, has completely obliterated 

 every early feature except the chancel-arch, which, although 

 blocked up and otherwise disfigured, is apparently quite entire. 



Fig. 15. 



* Registrum de Passelet, pp. 5, 7, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 308, 408, 411 

 Maitland Clab ; Theiner, p. 24. John, Priest of " Ledgaresude," is one of 

 the witnesses to a Charter granted in 1127 by Robert, Bishop of St. 

 Andrews, in favour of the Priory of Coldingham. 



