📌 Port Seton, East Lothian
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🛠️ Site closed for masonry work (checked April 2024)
Dating to medieval times, Seton Church was originally built as a parish church, gaining collegiate status three centuries later in 1494: the Seton family seeking a community of priests to pray for their salvation. Today it’s a peaceful place still used as an occasional wedding venue, set in tranquil woodland a little way back from the main road and car park. Left damaged at various points by English ransacking and local militia, the church was most recently repaired by the Earl of Wemyss after he gained ownership of the estate in the decades following the Jacobite uprising. The stumpy tower isn’t the result of war damage though – it was just never completed. Further ruins are dotted around the sun-dappled clearing which surrounds the church.
🌍 Location
📌 By the A198 1 mi southeast of Port Seton
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 418751
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.965488,-2.933610
🚌 Bus to St Germains junction on A198 (0.5 mi)
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
⌚ Daily, April to September
🎫 £7.50 adult / £4.50 child / free for Historic Environment Scotland members
