Terregles Parish Church

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'Terregles Church is situated nearly in the centre of the parish and was built in 1806.  The churchyard, containing numerous handsome monuments, is inclosed by a stone wall.  The minister's stipend is £158 6s 8d, of which one-fourth is paid from the exchequer; with a manse, and a glebe valued at £20 per annum : patron, the Duke of Buccleuch.

The parochial school, for which an appropriate building was recently erected, is well attended ; the master has a salary of £34, with a house and garden, and the fees average about £16 per annum. The poor receive the interest of £410 vested in the Kirk Session.'

Extract from: A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland  by Samuel Lewis. Published in 2 vols, London, 1846.

NB. The name Terregles, recorded as Travereglis in 1359, is from Cumbric *trev-ïr-eglẹ:s. *Trev refers to a settlement and *eglẹ:s is a borrowing of Latin ecclesia, 'church building' (as in Modern Welsh Tref yr Eglwys/ Tref Eglwys).