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WHITEKIRK AND] HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. [TYNNINGHAME.

monastery of St. Baldred, and is called Tynning-
ham, from Lammermoor even to Eskmouth."
The association with St. Cuthbert in the 7th
century depends on the identification of
" Tyningham " with the Scottish not the
English Tyne.2 At Tynninghame, however,
Baldred-to whom the church was dedicated-
had led the life of an anchorite and died there
in 756 or 757, Tyningham, too, being one of the
three places in Lothian in which the saint is
said to have been buried.3 In 941 Olaf God-
freyson " laid waste the church of St. Baldred
and burned Tynninghame."4 From this date the
history of the place is a blank till in 1094
" King Duncan." son of Malcolm Canmore,
granted to the monks of St. Cuthbert at
Durham " Tiningeham, Aldeham, Scuchall
(Scougall), Cnolle (Knowe), Hatherwick and
all the service which bishop Fodanus had of
Broceesmuthe " ; but the authenticity of this
charter has been called in question and, in any
case, the grant never operated.5 " Fodanus " is
Fothad, bishop of St. Andrews 1059-1093, so
that these lands apparently already pertained
to that bishopric and remained with it. From
a reference in another case it is learned that
the church had the privilege of sanctuary for
" life and limb."6
From information supplied by the church
records it can be inferred that the building
originally extended to a length of from 70 to
80 feet, having one door at the east end by
which " the minister was used to enter " and
another under a tower at the west end. The
church was structurally divided into four
" rooms " by the arch of the apse, the chancel
arch and apparently another arch at the tower
entrance. In 1665 the building was still " in
good case," but after the union of the parish
with that of Whitekirk in 1761 " the church
was in great part pulled down and destroyed,
the churchyard ploughed through, the grave-
stones taken away, the village itself im-
proved,"7 and so but a few fragments remain
of what was probably the finest parochial
example of Romanesque architecture in Scot-
land.

1 Reg. Mag. Sig. 1598 No. 688 ; 1618 No.
1946 ; 2 Hist de S.C. in Symeon of Dur. i.,
199. cf. Introd. p. xvi. ; 2 Symeon of Dur.
Hist. Dunm. Eccles. i., p. 48 ; Scotichron. Lib.
iii., cap. xxix. ; 4 Symeon Hist. Reg. ii., p. 94 ;

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5 Lawrie's Early Scottish Charters, No. xii. ;
6 Liber de Calchou No. 21 ; 7 Waddell's Old
Kirk Chronicle, pp. 27, 29, 33.

vi. N.W. 16 August 1913.

CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC STRUCTURES.

202. Auldhame.-Auldhame stands on one
of the sea cliffs from which the estate of Seacliff
is named, about a mile south-west of Tantallon
Castle. The site is very beautiful, overlooking
a little crescentic bay bordering the estuary of
the Forth between the Gegan and Car Rocks.
The ruin, which is that of a large 16th century
mansion, consists of a main block meas-
uring 59 3/4 feet from north-north-west to
south-south-east by 27 feet 4 inches from
east-north-east to west-south-west ; from the
eastern wall two rectangular towers project
eastwardly and circled turrets are corbelled out
in the northern re-entering angles. At the
northern angles of the main block there appear
to have been circled turrets, and against the
western wall were outbuildings. The building
has been at least three storeys in height ; the
basement, or a portion of it, has been vaulted.
On the first floor there is a fragment of a
17th century plaster frieze. The structure is
in very bad condition.
HISTORICAL NOTE.-Auldhame belonged to
the family of Otterburn ; Sir Adam Otterburn
of Reidhall and Auldhame, son of a merchant
burgess of Edinburgh, was King's Advocate
in the reign of James V.1 In 1594 there was a
charter of novodamus by James VI. to Thomas
Otterburn of Reidhall and Mariota Lauder his
wife, of the lands of Auldhame, etc. in the
barony of Tynninghame, the regality of St.
Andrews, etc.2

1 Omond's Lord Advocates i., p. 11 ; 2 Reg.
Mag. Sig. s.a., No. 86.

iii. S.W. (" St. Baldred's House")
27 August 1913.

203. Tithe Barn. (O.S. "The Granary")-
On the higher ground which overlooks the
church of Whitekirk 100 yards distant to the
south is a long narrow structure (fig. 16) built
of rubble with ashlar dressings, which is reputed
to have been the tithe barn of the parish. The
building contains two storeys with a garret in