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Are you looking for a present for someone who loves Scottish heritage? How about a gift membership of Scotland's Churches Trust? Help us continue to protect, preserve and promote this remarkable and endangered built heritage. Find out more here 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/gift-members...

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Day 27 of #31DaysOfGraves - Portrait The site of the actual grave of George Buchanan, historian, scholar and tutor of King James VI, in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, was lost centuries ago. Two stones have since been raised over possible locations, this memorial has his likeness on it.

bbc.co.ukPlan to convert former church on Raasay into a community shopWork on the church could start in autumn 2027.

A community group on the island of Raasay are planning to convert the former Free Presbyterian church on the island into a shop and community hub. Story here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Kathryn Leia

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Double whammy for today’s #31DaysOfGraves prompt of ‘portrait’ with a portrait (well, bust) of a portrait painter. William Bonnar RSA died in 1853, and is buried in St Cuthbert’s Kirkyard in Edinburgh.

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This Is My Glasgow

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One of a pair of angels on the spandrels surrounding the rose window of James Sellars' magnificent French Gothic style Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church on Saltoun Street in the West End of Glasgow. Cont./ #glasgow #church #architecture #architecturephotography #sculpture

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Really enjoyed our visit to it and the adjoining former Norton Park school last month.

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Day 26 of #31DaysOfGraves - Accident Few shipwrecks in history have captured the public imagination as much the one which claimed the life of Alexander Cairns, commemorated here on a family memorial at Kinfauns Kirkyard in Perthshire. 28 year old Alexander went down with the Titanic in Apr 1912.

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Although often listed as a "First Class Passenger", Alexander was actually the manservant of wealthy American passenger William Ernest Carter, who survived the sinking. Alexander shared a ticket with maid Augusta Jeanne Serreplaà who also survived when she joined her mistress in a lifeboat.

theedinburghreporter.co.ukEdinburgh’s home of charities elevates mission with new roofA building in the heart of Leith has completed a major roofing project, giving Edinburgh's non-profit and community-driven organisations a refreshed space. Charity hub and business centre, Norton Park, has completed works on its events and conference venue, which provides a vital space for Edinburgh’s third sector organisations and enterprises to meet and hold conferences. Covering 1,150m² of roof area, the project saw around 40,000 new slates installed, weighing an estimated 70 tonnes - the equivalent of roughly six double-decker buses. With such a significant amount of roofing being replaced, the works also saw thousands of slates removed from the building's previous roof.

The former Lockhart Memorial Church, sitting in the shadow of the Easter Road Stadium of Hibernian Football Club, this B-listed Gothic church was designed by the architectural practice of Jeffrey Waddell and Young and it will celebrate its 100th birthday next year.

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Edinburgh’s home of charities elevates mission with new roof A building in the heart of Leith has completed a major roofing project, giving Edinburgh's non-profit and community-driven organisations a refreshed space....

On the site of Bowden Kirk, #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, there has been a Christian presence since around 1128, but most of the church dates to the early 17th C. Despite substantial repairs in 1794 and major alterations in 1909 by architect Peter MacGregor Chalmers many original features remain. 🧵1/2

Further work took place in 1911-12, under the local architectural firm of R & J Grieve, to erect a new external staircase and a vestry to the north of the chancel. More on the SCT site 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/bowde... 🧵2/2 📷Ian Lees

Some members of the Aberdeen Church Recorders visited the beautiful little kirk in Stracathro last week to document the building. The church recently passed into the ownership of a local community trust. (Images: Ali Cameron)

Some local residents also stopped by and shared their memories of this beloved building and the many items deposited for safe-keeping inside, enriching the recording visit even more. (Images: Ali Cameron)

scotlandschurchestrust.org.ukScotland's Churches Trust Church RecordingMore information on Scotland's Churches Trust award-winning church recording methodology for volunteers to rapidly document church contents

As always, our thanks to these amazing volunteer recorders for their ongoing work capturing the church heritage of north east Scotland and to this lovely kirk's new owners for welcoming them in. Find out more about our church recording project here👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church-recor...

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LordWoolamaloo

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Christ Church at Holy Corner has had a rather spiffing new light scheme added, since I last walked by there after dark. Bookshop colleagues running a book event there this evening #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #NightPhotography #architecture

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LordWoolamaloo

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Light trails past Morningside United Church after dark this evening www.flickr.com/photos/woola... #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #Nightphotography #photography #photographie #architecture

flickr.comHoly Corner, Autumn Evening 01Light trails across the junction at Holy Corner, in front of the Italianate style of Morningside United Church. Improvised shots on the way home this evening, sitting the camera on a junction box or t...

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LiberalDespot

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SS Columba, Andrew, Margaret and Mund. Ballantine & Sons stained glass in St Giles Cathedral. Probably funded by the Dukes of Argyll, as Mund was an local abbot in lands - their mausoleum is in Kilmun ('the church of of Mund'). #StainedGlass #Edinburgh #Photography

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Simon Cuthbert-Kerr

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Four views of Craigsbank Church, a beautiful modernist church in Edinburgh. 📷 Bronica GS-1 #Edinburgh #Photography #Architecture #MediumFormat

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He Wanders Around 📷

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Viewforth Church from the Meadows. #Stunday #Edinburgh #Infrared #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #ECK @bskyphotos.bsky.social #Photography #Scotland #classicmono #blackandwhite #b&w #photography #photo #scape #church

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#31DaysOfGraves #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Aberlour, St. Margaret’s Episcopal Day 25. Tree I think that Margaret The ‘Natural Artist’ designed This gravestone and the one of their Son, very nearby who pre-deceased her. (Edited 9:00 via @skeetsapp.com)

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Alison Spring

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#31DaysOfGraves #Accident In High Blantyre Cemetery, Lanarkshire, stands an impressive obelisk monument to 240 coal miners who died in 2 separate accidents. This community suffered many more such losses over the years. A history of these is at buff.ly/Lzbf6gd Transcript of MI is in alt txt.

Day 25 of #31DaysOfGraves - Tree This unusual ceramic tree memorial is located in the kirkyard of St Maur's Glencairn Parish Church in East Ayrshire. The top is missing, which would once have memorialised the first occupant of the grave below, while its "sawn" branches list two of his children.

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Priscilla Scott

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#31DaysOfGraves Latha 25: Craobh / Tree. Craobh-chaorainn. Cladh Chille Mhoire, Dùn Bheagan. #Gàidhlig

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Undiscovered Scotland

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Inside the wonderfully eccentric St Conan's Kirk on the north shore of Loch Awe in Argyll. Built from 1907 to 1930, it drew together what its designer considered to be the best or most interesting features found in many other churches. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Argyll

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Angus Sawyer

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#31DaysOfGraves Day 25: Tree Trotter's neglected private burial ground. Mortonhall, Edinburgh.

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#31DaysOfGraves #Scotland Day 25. Tree Essil, Moray

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Michael Pearce

Lady Kirk, at Ladykirk/Upsettlington, Scottish Borders

Day 24 of #31DaysOfGraves - Contrast Some historic gravestones basking in the light of the #AuroraBorealis in Gladsmuir Kirkyard in East Lothian.

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#31DaysOfGraves #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Day 24. Contrast

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#31DaysOfGraves #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Day 24. Contrast Different sides of the wall

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Kathryn Leia

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Day 24 of #31DaysOfGraves being us to ‘contrast’. On the coast north of Montrose is Nether Kirkyard. It was a bright, cold day with strong shadows, so the lettering stood out clearly. Unlike the other women buried here, Helen Brand’s profession is mentioned - she was a midwife in the 1800s.

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Ken Page

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A few moments peace and contemplation whilst sheltering from the weather in the lovely St James Church in St Andrews, #Fife, #Scotland

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Undiscovered Scotland

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The tantalising remains of the little-known Lesmahagow Priory in South Lanarkshire. Founded in 1144, everything but the priory church was quarried down to ground level for its stone in the 1600s. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Lesmahagow #SouthLanarkshire #Lanarkshire

It's #FontsOnFriday time again, so here's the beautiful square baptismal font in our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Stirling. You can find out more about this remarkable late Victorian church on our website.

scotlandschurchestrust.org.ukHoly Trinity, Stirling - Scotlands Churches TrustOne of Sir Robert Rowand Anderson's most distinctive churches, this is a fine, little altered Victorian church. Opened in 1878, it is designed in Anderson's signature Early Gothic style.

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Day 23 of #31DaysOfGraves - Wings Scotland's remarkable national assemblage of 18th carved headstones are a wonderful but fragile inheritance. Here are two pics of the same winged soul in the old West Graveyard in Prestonpans, the top image taken in 1907, the bottom in 2020. It returns to sand...