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Currie Parish Church. View from North West.
SC 565179
Description Currie Parish Church. View from North West.
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 565179
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ML 1935/31
Scope and Content Currie Parish Church, Currie, Edinburgh, from the north 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 church, built in a Classical style, has a north front with Gothic windows and a pedimented centrepiece which stands forwards from the building. The square clock tower has an octagonal belfry and a stumpy spire topped by a weathervane. The earlier church consisted of a nave and chancel only, and had a timber roof. In the 17th century a rubble addition was built on to its east end and used until 1778 as a parish school, a burial-ground and as a reputed haunt of witches. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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