An aisle of some interest is attached to the church. It contains in a panel occupying the position of a niche on one of the buttresses a modern inscription giving the history of the aisle, viz.:—“Founded by Robert Blackadder, Archbishop of Glasgow, in the year 1499.” The only portions of the aisle still preserved which are of any interest are the two angle buttresses ([Fig. 272]). Both of these have had niches with canopies and corbels for supporting figures. The canopy of one is gone, but a sundial occupies its place. The archbishop’s arms and initials ([Fig. 273]) are carved on the buttress. His family name is derived from a place of the same designation in the parish. Another shield ([Fig. 274]), with arms almost obliterated, occurs a little further west.
LEGERWOOD, Berwickshire.
Fig. 276.—Legerwood Church. Window.
Legerwood stands in the hilly region, about four miles north-east from Earlston Station. The parish church is old, and has been often repaired. Attached to it, but entirely cut off by a wall, are the roofless
Fig. 275.—Legerwood Church. Plan.