St Mary's Church, Newbattle Abbey is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 2000. Burial ground.
St Mary's Church, Newbattle Abbey
- WRENN ID
- gentle-string-pigeon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 2000
- Type
- Burial ground
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Mary's Church at Newbattle Abbey is a small square private burial ground established in 1705 for the Kerr family, the Marquesses of Lothian and former owners of Newbattle Abbey. The burial ground features sandstone rubble walls with ridged coping stones. The designed gate is decorated with the Lothian crest, sun, and doves, and it bears the initials FWK and the date 1914, commemorating Colonel Frederic Walter Kerr, who died near Ypres in that year.
The Lothian Vault remains within the site, which includes a large droved sandstone memorial with a base, a moulded cornice, and a frieze featuring a waterleaf motif. Below this is a bead and reel motif, and it is surmounted by a cross. An inscribed stone notes that "THE FRONT OF THIS ISLE WAS ENLARGED BY GENERAL LORD MARK KERR" in 1888.
Inside, there are three marble memorials set into the stone, with a corniced pediment on the central slab dedicated to family members, including Mark Kerr who died in 1589 and Jean, Marchioness of Lothian, who "built this Isle" in 1705. Other funerary monuments include a red sandstone Celtic cross, graveslabs carved with the Lothian sun motif, and a stone slab marking the bones of a body found in the cloister garth in 1862, which were reinterred in the Lothian burial ground in 1990.
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