Fig. 672.—St. Kentigern’s. Plan.
Fig. 673.—St. Kentigern’s. View from North-West.
The church, from time to time, received numerous gifts of lands and houses from the burgesses and the neighbouring proprietors. Amongst other endowments, a chaplaincy was founded in the beginning of the fifteenth century by John Simpson, burgess of the town. The income of the church and its lands was drawn by the monks of Dryburgh, and the cure was served by a vicar and curates. At the Reformation the lands went with the Abbey of Dryburgh, which was erected into a temporal barony.[102]
The Church of St. Kentigern was used for service long after the Reformation, and was only abandoned when a new church was erected in the middle of the town in 1777.
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