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Currie Parish Church. View from South West.
ML 1933/23
Description Currie Parish Church. View from South West.
Date 6/1960
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number ML 1933/23
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 565175
Scope and Content The Churchyard, Currie Parish Church, Currie, Edinburgh Currie Parish Church, designed in 1784 by James Thompson of Leith, stands on the south bank of the Water of Leith on the site of an earlier church probably built in the early part of the 14th century, but whose origins date from the 12th century. The churchyard, which surrounds the church in its quiet rural setting, contains headstones and memorials dating from the 17th century, many carved with the traditional symbols of death - crossed spades, the hourglass, and the inscription, 'MEMEMTO MORI'. In 1898 two Calvary cross slabs, of a style used from pre-Norman times until the 13th century to mark Christian interment, were discovered in the churchyard. The slabs were marked with simple crosses and symbols to show the occupations of the deceased. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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