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Currie Church, Churchyard, Mausoleum View of mausoleum.
SC 565230
Description Currie Church, Churchyard, Mausoleum View of mausoleum.
Catalogue Number SC 565230
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ML 2207
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, enclosed by a high stone wall, surrounds the church in a peaceful rural setting. The headstones and memorials date from the 17th century, and include some large tombs of former ministers, local lairds and wealthy tenant farmers. In the early 19th century, the stealing of bodies from graveyards by the Resurrectionists (body-snatchers) was common. In Currie churchyard some graves are covered by a coffin-shaped stone, a relic of one early method of grave protection. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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