The Bore Stone and Morningside Parish Church

Category

Library Item

Item no

32075

Title

The Bore Stone and Morningside Parish Church, Morningside Road, Edinburgh

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2014

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Morningside was once a village on a main road south from Edinburgh. In the 1850s it was no more than a row of thatched houses and a blacksmith's forge and beyond the Jordan Burn was open countryside. Nowadays it is predominantly residential with a collection of small traditional shops,restaurants,supermarkets,a library and hospitals.

Morningside Parish Church, 1836, was the first church in the area. Prior to this the local residents had sermons in the Old School House or walked to St Cuthbert's Church at the
West End of Princes Street.
Bore Stone : It is said that the Royal Banner was placed in this stone prior to the troops gathering on the Boroughmuir before going to the battle of Flodden in 1513.

[Information taken from Morningside Heritage Association leaflet " Morningside Heritage Trail"]

The church closed in 1990 when it amalgamated with Braid Church and now is part of Napier University now housing its School of Arts and Creative Industries department.

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