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Category Library Item
Item No 583
Title Corstorphine
Description Corstorphine Church, Edinburgh with a churchyard in front of it. The graveyard has very few gravestones. The kirk has a large ornate arched window. It has many roofs and a spire. The steeple has a weathervane at the top. At a side entrance two people are climbing some stairs.
Artist / Maker Skene, James
Date 1827
Size 19 x 22 cm.
Type "Watercolour"
Location Edinburgh Room
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Corstophine Collegiate Church at Corstorphine, Edinburgh. The church was built in 1429 by Sir Adam Forrester, extended by his son John and is said to have Templar connections.

Corstorphine was originally a separate village west of Edinburgh. It has been incorporated into the city and is now one of its most significant suburbs. The Forrester Family, who built Corstorphine Castle, controlled the area's lands from the 14th to the 18th Century. The Castle was dismantled in the 18th Century, but its doocot, or dovecot remains. The lands were subsequently owned by the Dicks, a family of Edinburgh lawyers and merchants, and later the Dicksons. Corsorphine is now home to Edinburgh Zoo.
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