Old photograph of the Parish Church in Maxton located just South of St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. On St Cuthbert’s Way and dedicated to St Cuthbert. Reputed to have been a place of worship on this site for almost 1000 years. Originally oblong, thatched until 1790. North aisle added 1866, vestry 1962. Wyvern organ. Stained glass by J H Corham gifted 1914, Hebrew and Latin inscriptions, Maxton War Memorial within church. Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, made a charter to John St.Clair, his valet, of the lands of Maxton, Roxburghshire, around 1326, one of the witnesses being Robert de Lauder, Justiciar of Lothian.
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