Parish Churches - Mertoun Kirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland

See the background to this series of postings in my comment at http://365project.org/terryliv/365/2017-01-17
This quaint little church is near St Boswell, in the historic county of Roxburghshire, now the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
I could not find a definite account of its history but it appears that a church has stood on this spot since the 12 century while this building probably dates from the 1600s.
While wandering around the area, we inadvertently ended up in the grounds of this big impressive building. When we stopped and asked a worker what it was we were told it was Mertoun House, the home of the Duke of Sutherland and that it was private property and we were not supposed to be there. He was good about it (stupid bloody Australians) so we left. We had many such incidents like this during our wanderings. Ha ha ha

Photo taken March 2011

[MB]

It's a wonderful, old building. Glad you grabbed a shot before you left.

[Denise Wood]

What a wee sweet church in all the greenery :) Lucky there were no security guards with guns!!

[Babs]

Lots of history here. Great shot. It pays to act dumb sometimes doesn't it. ha ha.
Here is a link to Mertoun Kirk that may be of interest. http://www.stboswells.bordernet.co.uk/history/mertoun-kirk.html

[Poppo Livy]

@onewing Thanks Babs. That's the site I got the little bit of info from but it is very badly written and hard to get a definitive account of what happened when with the church

[Tony]

Lovely capture of that quaint church.

[judith deacon]

What a wonderful old church and what a great idea to photograph the churches that come up in your geneological research. We have been trying to photograph houses that were connected with our ancestors, the trouble is some of them have ended up under main roads and others just disappeared into the mists of time, especially the ones in London.

[Valerie Chesney]

A wonderful, so old church still standing, it has such beauty in that setting I so like the interesting background too, thank you...")

[Ron]

Your criminal trespassing was well worth this capture. Nicely done!

[Denise (lyndemc)]

The greenery frames this perfectly. The orange/red bricks add such interest to the texture of the stonework.

[gayelene]

Love this fav

[Peter]

Lovely perspective, detail and colour Terry, what a lovely little church almost hidden from view you did well to find it:)

[Sam]

One can only hope that you and Nanna didn't steal anything from Mertoun House!

[Pam Knowler]

A beautiful little church!! Loving the tales of your wanderings!!

[Sebastian Gritt]

Yeah we know. On walk-about!! (Rite of passage during which Indigenous male Australians would undergo a journey during adolescence!!!!!) NOTE:- Adolescence!!?? Great shot.