Jedburgh Old Parish Church
Jedburgh Old Parish Church is a Presbyterian Church of Scotland church building in the Scottish town of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders council area. In 1993, the building was added to the Scottish Register of Historic Monuments at the highest level of listed buildings, Category A.
History
Since the 12th century, Jedburgh Abbey has been Jedburgh's principal building. During the Scottish Reformation around 1560, the abbey was dissolved. The abbey church then served as the parish church. After the former abbey church had become both dilapidated and too small for the growing congregation by the 1870s, a new church was built.Schomberg Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian, provided both money and land for this project. Construction began in 1872 and was completed in 1875. The Anglo-Irish architect Thomas Henry Wyatt was responsible for the design. The first service was held in the new church on 11 April that year. In 1769 James MacKnight became the church's second minister and in the same year MacKnight was elected to be the Moderator of the Church of Scotland.
An extension in 1888 was designed by the Scottish architect Hippolyte Blanc.
In 1993 the main building and its gate piers became a category A listed building.