In 1467 St. Nicholas was disjoined from Lasswade, and Dalkeith was made a separate parish, and in 1477 the church was enlarged by the
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Fig. 1135.—The Collegiate Church of Dalkeith.
Shield at Head of Lady.
addition of three canonries, endowed by the Earl of Morton. At the Reformation, St. Nicholas' was settled as the Presbyterian church of the parish.
In 1686 the minister reported the church to be ruinous, and the Presbytery ordered it to be made wind and water tight.
On the north side of the church there is a vault occupied as the funeral vault of the Buccleuch family.
ST. MUNGO'S CHURCH, BORTHWICK, Mid-Lothian.
This church is situated near the well known castle of the same name
in the south-east part of the county, and about nine miles from Edinburgh.
With the exception of the south aisle or chapel, the church (Fig. 1136)
was entirely rebuilt about forty years ago.[1] To judge from what of the old
plan can now be made out, the structure has originally been a Norman
one, with aisleless nave and choir, and a circular eastern apse. The
reconstruction of the edifice included that of the apse and the south wall
of the chancel, which, although not entirely new, are yet practically so,
none of the ancient architectural features being left, but only, at most,
some of the walling. The apse is about 16 feet wide by about 10 feet 6
inches deep, and was lighted by three narrow widely splayed windows.
The chancel was about 16 feet 6 inches long by 22 feet wide. The south
wall contained two windows, and apparently a piscina, but all these features
have disappeared, as well as the more important arches which formed the
entrance to the chancel and the apse.
A south aisle or chapel (see Fig. 1136) has been added to the church. It is entire and is a good example of Scottish Gothic of the latter half of the fifteenth century, having in all probability been built about the same
- ↑ A plan and view of the church before it was rebuilt and some notes regarding the building are given in the Arniston Memoirs, by G. W. T. Omond, p. 6.
