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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Ruins of CHAPEL OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS (Supposed) Old Ph [Parish] Church. (in ruins) Revd [Reverend] Mr Smith Temple.
Mr Wright Ph [Parish] Schoolmaster Temple.
019 This ruin is in good preservation, the walls are entire and the style of architecture is [---] Gothic: the western end is of a different Style, and seems to have been an addition, added to the original Structure And more Modern than the eastern end. At the east end, immediately under the belfry. the following letters. are inscribed. on one of the Stones composing the befry Viz. V Æ. S A C. but no antiquarian has itherto been able to explain them Meaning - Little or nothing is known of the origin or history of this Structure. till the Reformation. it had then united to it. the Ecclesiastical reverend of Moorfoot and Clerkington. and the parish Church of Temple. Public worship was discontinued in it about 22 years ago. The Revd [Reverend] Mr Smith Ph [Parish] Minister of Temple is of opionion that it was erected by the Knights Templars Some years previous to the battle of Bannockburn*
TEMPLE CHURCH (Ruins of) 019 This ruin is in good preservation, the walls are entire and the style of architecture is [---] Gothic: the western end is of a different Style, and seems to have been an addition, added to the original Structure And more Modern than the eastern end. At the east end, immediately under the belfry. the following letters. are inscribed. on one of the Stones composing the befry Viz. V Æ. S A C. but no antiquarian has itherto been able to explain them Meaning - Little or nothing is known of the origin or history of this Structure. till the Reformation. it had then united to it. the Ecclesiastical reverend of Moorfoot and Clerkington. and the parish Church of Temple. Public worship was discontinued in it about 22 years ago. The Revd [Reverend] Mr Smith Ph [Parish] Minister of Temple is of opionion that it was erected by the Knights Templars Some years previous to the battle of Bannockburn*

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Names collected by J McDiarmid c.a. [civilian assistant]
Plan 19 A Trace 3

*If it was erected by the Templars at all. it must
have been previous to the battle of Bannockburn. as
the order was expelled the Kingdom shortly after that
battle - at the east end are two figures, said to represent
lambs. there was another of the same kind inside above one
of the windows. but was taken away by Some Antiquarian some
years ago. As the figure of the lamb was invariably
used by the Templar's. in ornamenting there places of Worship
and as all there Churches Were dedicated to the Virgin
perhaps the following translation of the letters under the belfry
will assist in Settling the period of its erection. Viz. Virgini. Aedes
Sacra Matri Jesu Hominum. Mediatari


[signed]
James Carpenter C. Asst [Civilian Assistant]
9th March 1853

H James
Cap RE [Captain Royal Engineers]
10' March 1853.

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