Stobo Kirk

Much of what you see was built around 1120, and the rounded Norman stonework around the main door is original.

The site is older still. St Mungo is said to have founded a church here, and legend says that nearby he converted Merlin, the wild man of the woods, and baptised him. A stained-glass window in the church tells the story.

Inside there is plenty to find: a porch added around 1500, a carved slab to Robert Vesey, who died in 1473, and another showing a knight of the early 1500s. Look too for the jougs, an iron collar chained to the wall, used after the Reformation to punish wrongdoers. The kirk is a lovely stop in the Tweed valley.