Cross Kirk, Peebles

This is the Cross Kirk in Peebles. Its located in a wooded residential area in the northern part of Peebles. It has a very eery feel to it, especially on a grey windy day like today.

Built around 1261 as a priory, by the late 1400s it had developed into a monastry It was at this time the stone bell tower featured in the photo was built. With the Reformation in the 1560s it become a parish church but was abandoned in 1790 when a new parish church for Peebles was built (see yesterday's blip). By the late 1800s it was noted as being a 'fragmentory ruin in a fir plantation' and as being in a 'very desolate' state. Today it is in the care of Historic Scotland.