Rather less than a quarter of a mile west from the Cross Church there
stands the tower of St. Andrew’s Church. It has been so completely
restored or transformed by the late Dr. Chambers, that it is now of no
interest whatever as a specimen of the ancient architecture of Scotland.
A view of the tower as it appeared at the end of the eighteenth century
will be found in the _Antiquities of Scotland_ by Captain Grose; and on
the Ordnance Map there is a plan of the church, from which it may be
gathered that the tower was a western one, in a similar position to that
of the Cross Church. The plan shows a nave measuring about 75 feet long
by 40 feet wide, and a choir about 50 feet long, having apparently a
building of some kind, either an aisle or chapel, along the north side.
The total length of the building was about 140 feet.
The Church of St. Andrew at Peebles was consecrated by Bishop Jocelin of
Glasgow in 1195.[197] St. Andrew’s was the parish church of Peebles.
In 1543 this church was made Collegiate. In 1548 it was burned down by
the English, and never rebuilt. Captain Grose says that all the arches
of the doors and windows were semicircular.