Burial-Ground, Parish Church, Newbattle Road

This is a burial ground associated with the parish church on Newbattle Road. It features a rectangular enclosure defined by sandstone rubble boundary walls topped with rough and rounded stone coping and flat wall-heads. The entrance is marked by tall, square sandstone gatepiers supporting cast-iron gates with floral decoration. The graveyard contains numerous gravestones dating from the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries, with a particularly fine tablestone for Walter Welsh and his family, dated 1705, which is carved with cherubs, swags, fruit, bones, and skulls.

Several mural monuments are of particular interest. A monument to John Duncan, weaver, dated 1607, features a roll-moulded arch, initials T B and I D, and carved shuttles with threads and stretchers. A 1620 monument to Mary and Martha of Bethany is located in the southwest corner wall and includes a curved alcove flanked by fluted pilasters, although a heraldic shield that previously topped it now lies in front of the monument. A 1623 monument, initialled RW, DM, and TW MP, in the southeast corner wall displays pilasters with spades and shovels flanked by carved skulls, crossbones, and an hourglass. A 1629 mural tablet in the southwest wall is initialled TH and HL. Frances Murray's 1641 monument on the west wall, a relation of the 1st Earl of Lothian, features pilasters crowned with a head and skull, with flanking carved strapwork panels, and a carved skull and crossbones below.

The 1682 monument to James Chirnside in the south corner wall is a classical memorial with pilasters and scrolls, and includes a cartouche and skull in the pediment along with a row of mortuary emblems. A 1708 monument in the southeast corner wall frames a central recumbent figure, with a shield held by two putti and a carved skull and crossbones above. In 1724 a monument initialled TW and ES, in the southeast corner wall has a classical design featuring two flanking pilasters, a cherub head with wings above an eroded epitaph, a shield and date in the pediment, and mortuary emblems at the base. The 1728 monument to Robert Wilson and James Aitchison in the northwest corner wall is a classical memorial with ribbed pilasters and scrolls. A headstone to William Douglas, a miner, dated 1741, is carved with picks, a shovel, crossbones, and a cherub head, while its reverse is dedicated to Robert Allan, also a miner, dated 1754 and features a putto holding a book and flower. Another headstone, dated 1742, commemorates Robert Wilson, a blacksmith, and is carved with Ionic pillars, drapes, skulls, a hammer, hourglasses, and a crown; the reverse includes an epitaph. A large mural monument in the southeast corner, dated 1802, commemorates the Watsons of Esperston, and is columned with a pediment. Finally, an undated headstone, likely from the 18th century, commemorates Ronald Bell and features Ionic columns, drapes, an ornate pediment with a skull, scrolls, and a hip bone.