Qualla: Newbattle https://qualla.com/newbattle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Newbattle https://qualla.com/newbattle Newbattle: Introduction https://qualla.com/newbattle/ Neubothle. New building. The Old Scots name has lasted nearly nine centuries, given to this Midlothian village when King David I invited Cistercian monks from Melrose Abbey to settle on a stretch of land south of Dalkeith in 1140. The 'new building' was Newbattle Abbey. The abbey burned twice - English royal forces torched it in 1385 and again in 1544 - and after the Reformation its stones were quarried for a new parish church a stone's throw away. That church too eventually had to be rebuilt. Newbattle keeps rebuilding. The name fits.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/v/newbattle-wp/gcvv-newbattle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Newbattle: The Cistercian Foundation https://qualla.com/newbattle/ David I, the most monastery-loving of medieval Scottish kings, founded Newbattle Abbey with his son Henry as co-patrons. The church was dedicated in 1234, after nearly a century of construction. For four hundred years the white-robed Cistercians farmed the surrounding lands, mine...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/v/newbattle-wp/gcvv-newbattle-the-cistercian-foundation.mp3 0:06 2 full Newbattle: The Holy Fair https://qualla.com/newbattle/ After the Reformation, the people pulled down what was left of the abbey church and built a Protestant parish church beside it. Little is known about that first post-Reformation building, but the records preserve something stranger: the Newbattle Communion Sacrament, held each ye...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/v/newbattle-wp/gcvv-newbattle-the-holy-fair.mp3 0:06 3 full Newbattle: The Current Church https://qualla.com/newbattle/ By 1720 the post-Reformation church was failing. The minister, Charles Campbell, feared it would fall down on the congregation. The Marquess of Lothian commissioned Edinburgh architect Alexander McGill to draw up plans for a replacement, and in 1727 work finally began on a clean ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/v/newbattle-wp/gcvv-newbattle-the-current-church.mp3 0:06 4 full Newbattle: Newtongrange and the Modern Parish https://qualla.com/newbattle/ In 2003 the parish boundaries were redrawn to include the village of Newtongrange and the communities of Mayfield and Easthouses - effectively restoring borders that had existed centuries earlier before the mining villages split off. The 2011 census recorded 21,534 people in the ...

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