IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Minto, HAWICK, TD9 8SB
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to TD9 8SB by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (9 Images Found)
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Details
Distance
1
Estate track near Minto House
Estate properties to the north of the golf course.
Image: © Jim Barton
Taken: 19 Jul 2012
0.09 miles
2
Old church site at Minto
The remains of this burial enclosure are all that is visible on the site of Minto Old Parish Church. The church was demolished in 1831, the same year that the present parish church was built.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 16 Apr 2008
0.21 miles
3
The jougs at Minto Old Parish Church site
On the remains of the south wall of a burial enclosure. The iron collar would be put round an offender's neck as a form of punishment.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 16 Apr 2008
0.21 miles
4
Robin on a symbolic headstone
This robin followed me in to a burial enclosure at the site of the former Minto Old Parish Church, and flew from stone to stone. A winged vertebrate on a winged soul, an emblem of immortality.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 16 Apr 2008
0.21 miles
5
Burial enclosure at the site of Minto Old Parish Church
The old church was demolished in 1831 and some headstones have been laid against the inner walls of this enclosure. There are some beautiful symbolic stones together with a grave slab and a hog-backed stone.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 16 Apr 2008
0.21 miles
6
Symbolic gravestone
At the site of the former Minto Old Parish Church.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 16 Apr 2008
0.21 miles
7
Gravestone at the site of Minto Old Parish Church
The headstone of Zacchews Lawrie, the school master at Minto, who died in 1744 aged 53. The church was demolished in 1831, the same year that the present church was built.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 16 Apr 2008
0.22 miles
8
Old headstones at Minto
These old headstones are under the canopy of an ancient yew tree at the site of Minto Old Parish Church. The church was demolished in 1831.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 16 Apr 2008
0.22 miles
9
A symbolic gravestone at the site of the former Minto Old Parish Church
This Memento Mori (remember you must die) portrait stone shows the deceased holding a book which denotes religious devotion. A winged soul above is a symbol of immortality representing the human soul rising to await Judgement Day, while the hammer, tongs and horseshoe below indicates that this is the grave of a blacksmith. Minto Old Parish Church was demolished in 1831, the same year that the present church was built. The stone is in a small group by an ancient yew tree Image
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 16 Apr 2008
0.22 miles