Prestongrange Parish Church

There had been a church to the south of Prestonpans, since the 12th century which was administered by the canons of Holyrude Abbey but that church, situated in the vicinity of Northfield House was destroyed by the earl of Hertford in 1544 during the Rough Wooing campaign against the Scots following the Scots' refusal to allow Princess Mary of Scotland.

(the to-be Mary, Queen of Scots) marry Henry's son, Prince Edward.

The good minister spent time in prison in Edinburgh in 1601 and, on his release, was banned from leaving the parish for life.

Happily, the two congregations re-united in 1981 to form Prestongrange Parish Church.

There are many interesting and intriguing grave stones in the kirkyard where a number of former ministers and even soldiers from the Battle of Prestonpans are buried.