Corstorphine Old Parish Church

Category

Library Item

Item no

3788

Title

Corstorphine Old Parish Church

Description

Corstorphine Old Parish Church and graveyard, Edinburgh. The church has a square tower topped with a weathervane. There are many gravestones in front of the church.

Artist / maker

Keith, Thomas

Date

1856

Size

27.6 x 22

Type

Paper negative

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Corstorphine Old Parish Church, also know as Corstorphine Collegiate Church, was built in the late 14th or early 15th century by Sir Adam Forrester and dedicated to St John the Baptist. It was constructed adjacent to an earlier church which was demolished in the 17th Century. It was extended and became a collegiate church in 1429. The church has been subject to extensive alterations during its history.

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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Architecture > Monuments > Gravestones

Places > Edinburgh areas > Corstorphine

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Religion > Religious facilities > Graveyards

Religion > Religious facilities > Protestant churches

(55°56′29″N, 3°16′54″W)

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