In 1606 or 1612 the parishes of Crailing and Nisbet were united and the church at Crailing was appointed to serve both. In 1622 the property and lands which had belonged to the canons of Jedburgh were made into a temporal lordship and given to Sir Andrew Ker. In 1642 Lady Anna Ker, countess of Lothian, was retoured of the tithes of the church of Nisbet and other churches ‘Quae sunt ecclesiae antiquae abbatiae de Jedburgh’. The church at Nisbet was demolished about 1757 and by 1792 there was no vestige left of the building. The churchyard, however, continued in use. In 1905, two coped grave covers were described as being in the churchyard. At that time, it was documented that there were two supports for the tegulated hogback grave cover, one of which was decorated with chevron. This large grave cover had apparently been discovered in 1890 when the churchyard was levelled. In 1944 it was still entire and located at the southern end of the churchyard, but some years later it disappeared and was found broken into 16 pieces lying in a ditch around the churchyard. It has subsequently put back together and is now in the Museum at Hawick. A cross head also existed and was photographed in 1905. The present location of the chevroned stone and cross head is not known.

Ranulph de Soules (or Sules), a Northamptonshire baron, obtained Nisbet in Teviotdale from David I, possibly between 1113 and 1124. He in turn granted half of a carrucate of land in Nasebith to Jedburgh Abbey. The chapel appears to have been granted to the canons of Jedburgh between 1124 and 1153. In the small church of Nisbet, in 1220 and again in 1228, differences between the bishop of Glasgow and the canons of Jedburgh were discussed. Between 1306 and 1329, Robert the Bruce confirmed tithes from the Chapel of Nisbet and Crailing, granted to them by the Earls Gospatrick. On the forfeiture of William Soulis in 1320, Robert the Bruce granted the barony to Robert Stewart, son and heir of Walter Stewart.

It is important not to confuse Nisbet in the parish of Crailing (Roxburghshire) granted to Jedburgh Abbey with the Nisbet in the parish of Edrom (Berwickshire) which was granted to Durham Priory. It is likely that the chevroned stone (now missing) was carved in the 12thc. Facetted shafts exist not far away at both Dunfermline Abbey (Fife) and Duddingston (City of Edinburgh), but neither has quite the same chevon profile. Curle suggested that the decorated stone was part of a hogback monument, but comparisons and size suggest it could have been part of a shaft or half-shaft. It is undocumented as to what the plain face looked like, so it is not known if it was original or cut back later. The cross head (also missing) finds local comparisons with ones that have been found, for example, at Coldingham Priory and Hobkirk, but the lack of a fourth cross arm is unusual. The appearance of a three-armed cross on the large coped grave cover now in Hawick raises the question as to whether the two were contemporary.

For more information see the CRSBI entry for the Hawick Museum.