 |
|
| Author |
Message |
Spry
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 2216
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I thought that some of mine in Roslin kirkyard were unmarked, Davie, until I started to find small flat slabs that had been covered with grass and weeds.
_________________
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Dingle McFarkle
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 1003
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Dingle McFarkle
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 1003
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Coupla things re the above....
fig 3. Traceried Window in South Transept.
Look at the odd, empty lookong framed bit beteen the door and the window. There's a similar one on the other side.
On the new Glencorse Kirk, there are similar framed bits but with stones in them that don't match the rest of the stonework in the building.
Accoprding to the Annals of Penicuik, stones from Howlett's Hall were used in building the old kirk. I've wondered if these stones were first set into the framed bits of the old kirk and then tranferred to the new kirk.
fig 5. The "Pathetic Memorial."
Vandals had thier way with the original many years back, but there's now a facsimile inside the new kirk. It maybe adds to Anona's point that few could afford the expense of headstones. The best this father could manage for his dead child was an inscription on her school slate. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Spry
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 2216
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
That's interesting. My maternal grannie was a Meggat and I see there's a stone to a James and Helen Meggat. I wonder if they're ancestors?
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bullit
Vergin' on the Verge
User is Offline
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Posts: 8
|
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: Re: Glencorse Kirk |
|
|
| Spry wrote: |
| I haven't been out to Glencorse auld kirk since it was a semi-ruin. Somebody told me yesterday that it had been restored. Is this the case and who did it? |
It was on the telly a few years back. A local stone mason, an auld school pal o' mine did a lot o' the work. He say's it's very nice. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Spry
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 2216
|
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Thanks, bullit. Don't suppose you can get inside? Is it private or do the public get in for kirk services?
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Big Davie
Drookit
User is Offline
Joined: 03 Jul 2007
Posts: 188
|
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
That Stone Mason happens to be a pal o mine as well Bullit.
He's also renowned for playing the pipes wae 9 and a half fingers. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
| |
| Recent Topics |
» Litter
by Anona.Mouse on Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:40 pm
» A Man of God?
by Spry on Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:44 pm
» Accu weather forecast on this forum
by Anona.Mouse on Sun Aug 31, 2008 7:06 pm
» Penicuik Pool
by soup on Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:27 am
» Bumbling in
by Spry on Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:45 pm
» Four Midlothian Post Offices to close
by Anona.Mouse on Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:56 pm
» War crime
by Spry on Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:15 pm
» Just run that one into me again . . .
by Anona.Mouse on Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:33 pm
» Deep Sea Fish (interesting article)
by silvers on Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:44 pm
» Roy Walker - Festival Fringe
by Anona.Mouse on Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:39 am
» Was there ever a Golden Age ? (BBC website 16 07 08)
by Anona.Mouse on Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:42 pm
» Bring back ----
by Anona.Mouse on Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:01 pm
» Weather Warning!
by Big Davie on Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:52 pm
» This is really scary
by TattieBogle on Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:07 pm
» Balerno days
by TattieBogle on Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:46 pm
» H M T Lancastria
by Anona.Mouse on Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:36 pm
» Two minutes of my time
by silvers on Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:11 pm
» penicuik u.f.s.childrens gala day
by Ben_Ledi on Tue May 27, 2008 9:42 pm
» Language and pronunciation
by silvers on Sat May 24, 2008 4:44 pm
» Hi-ho, silvers!
by Anona.Mouse on Mon May 19, 2008 3:13 am
» Glencorse Kirk
by Anona.Mouse on Tue May 13, 2008 3:39 pm
|
|
| |
