Christskirk

NJ62NW 60 6047 2678

For adjacent remains of Christ's Kirk, see NJ62NW 7.

Archive in NAS: RHP 5199.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

The pre-improvement village of Christ's Kirk is depicted on an estate map of 1758 held by the National Archives of Scotland as three rows of yards and houses arranged around a T-junction of streets. Two of the rows face each other across a N-S street that includes the church in the eastern row. The third row lies on the N side of the road forming the T-junction, which leads from Temple Croft to Old Flinder. The modern buildings that occupy the south end of the street past the church have replaced a 19th-century farmsteading.

Information from RCAHMS (PJD) 2 June 2004.

NAS RHP 5199.

A group of houses and yards similar to, though less compact than, the village described above is depicted on the 1797 Leith Hall Plan of Sleepy Kirk and Temple (E 33904 and E 33905 CN). The title of the plan suggests that the village might also have been known as Sleepy Kirk at that time.

Information from Anne Cassells (RCAHMS), 22 November 2007.