IGO The Pre- Reformation Churches of Beriuickshire. 



Lauder, and 



The chapels of St. John at Kedslie, and St. Leonards. 



MORDINGTON 



Embraces the ancient parishes of Mordyngton, or Morthyngton, 

 and Laraberton, both of them originally Saxon manors, and the 

 latter one of the earliest possessions of the priory of Coldingham.* 

 Lamberton was annexed at the Reformation to Ayton, from 

 which it was disjoined, and united to Mordington, in 1650. 



The ancient Pakish Church of Mordington is now represented 

 by a burial-vault, 19 feet 2 inches by 12 feet internally, 

 surrounded by the old grave-yard, overgrown with nettles, in a 

 plantation a few hundred yards to the south of the modern 

 mansion of Mordington House. It bears manifest traces of 

 having been reconstructed at no very distant date; but frag- 

 ments of stones, which have evidently belonged to the ancient 

 building, are lying scattered about; and a tablet or panel, 23 

 inches by 15 inches, upon which is a rudely sculptured repres- 

 entation of the crucifixion, has been built into the interior side 

 of the W. wall. (Fig. 35.) The inscription above the central 

 figure has baffled all attempts to decipher it, and I cannot offer 

 even a conjectural reading. On another stone outside are carved 

 a heart pierced by a dagger, and above it the letters W.M. 

 (probably the initials of William Douglas, Lord Mordington, c. 

 1656). The field surrounding the plantation in which the vault 

 and grave-yard are situated is still called the " Kirk Park." 



The ruined Church of Lamberton stands within its burying- 

 <:round close to the farm steading of that name, near the 

 boundaries of the Liberties of Berwick-on-Tweed. It has 

 consisted of a nave, 30 feet by 17 feet, and a narrower 

 chancel, 28 feet \>j 14 feet, internally, (Fig. 36 ) each of which 

 is now converted into a burial-aisle. The walls of both divisions 

 remain to the height of about five feet al)ove the ground, hut 

 they have been to a considerable extent rebuilt, and every detail 

 of ancient date has disappeared. 



In this church, in 1502, the Princess Margaret of England was 

 delivered over to the Scottish Commissioners, to be conducted to 

 Edinburgh, where her marriage to the ill-fated James IV. was 

 celebrated shortly afterwards. 



* Morthyugton is mentioned, along with Lamberton, in King Edgar's 

 doubtful charter referred to in our notice of Foulden. 



