Cramond Church, graveyard Detail of tombstones
ED 2861
Description Cramond Church, graveyard Detail of tombstones
Date 12/4/1923
Collection Records of Ian Gordon Lindsay and Partners, architects, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number ED 2861
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 537372, SC 2602027
Scope and Content Mort-safe, Cramond Churchyard, Cramond Glebe Road, Cramond, Edinburgh Cramond Church, standing in a woodland setting on the hill above Cramond village, was built in 1656 on the site of a medieval church which had become ruinous. It incorporates the 15th-century tower from the earlier building at its west end. The churchyard has a variety of headstones of different types and dates, and a row of mort-safes along part of the east wall. These walled enclosures surround the burial plot, and have a locked iron gate to prevent any unauthorised entry. In the early 19th century, the lucrative trade of 'body snatching' was common in Edinburgh. Freshly buried corpses were dug up from graveyards and sold to the Anatomy Department at Edinburgh University to be used for dissection by medical students. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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