Stobo Kirk

It is dedicated to St Mungo and is situated near the B712 off the A72 just 6 miles south-west of Peebles in the ancient county of Peeblesshire, now part of the Scottish Borders Council area.

[4] The people of Stobo were no different and when their canon, Adam Colquhoun,[5] was succeeded by one of his two sons, it helped fuel the desire for a reformed church.

[9] The 12th-century Norman entrance into the nave has a door made from a single board of cedar wood from the nearby Dawyck estate.

[10] Reconstructed in 1928 in a style reminiscent of the Arts and Crafts Movement, in the erroneous belief that this was the site of Saint Kentigern's Chapel, the structure incorporates a standing stone in the wall.

The most important bears the inscription (in Latin) "Here lies Mr Robert Vessy sometime vicar of Stobo who died on the 10th day of May in the year of Our Lord 1473".

A second shows a full length figure of a man in partial armour with a sword by his side, dating from the second half of the 16th century.

[11] The Balfour family of Stobo Castle presented a number of brass hanging lamps to the kirk and one of these has been identified as being manufactured in Nuremberg by Hans Muller between 1693 and 1701.