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
- Small square private burial ground for the Kerr family, the Marquesses of Lothian and the former owners of Newbattle Abbey. Sandstone rubble walls; ridged coping stones; designed gate decorated with the Lothian crest and sun, doves; initialled FWK and dated 1914 (Colonel Frederic Walter Kerr) who died near Ypres, 1914. Lothian Vault remains; large droved sandstone memorial with base; moulded cornice; waterleaf motif to frieze; bead and reel motif below; surmounted by cross; inscribed stone below; 'THE FRONT OF THIS ISLE WAS ENLARGED BY GENERAL LORD MARK KERR', 1888. 3 marble memorials set into the stone; corniced pediment to central slab; dedicated to members of the family including Mark Kerr who died 1589 and Jean, Marchioness of Lothian 'who built this Isle' in 1705. Other funerary monuments include 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, 1862 and reinterred in the Lothian burial ground, 1990.
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