2021

NT1867 : Cross in Currie Kirk Graveyard

taken 3 years ago, near to Currie, Edinburgh, Scotland

Cross in Currie Kirk Graveyard
Cross in Currie Kirk Graveyard
Currie Kirk is Currie's original church, here long before the village's relatively recent expansion on the North side of the Water of Leith. It confusingly also goes by the names of Currie Parish Church and St Kentigern's. The old graveyard is certainly worth a visit and actually has Category B listed building status.
This grave was the leftmost of three in a small enclosure at the East end of a dividing wall of the cemetery. It must therefore have something to do with the other two, but is strangely unmarked.
Ivy on gravestones is said to symbolise eternity - both in the sense of the afterlife, and of the dead living on in the hearts of those that knew them - because it is an evergreen plant, and is often seen still living on otherwise dead trees.

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Geographical Context: Religious sites Burial ground, Crematorium Primary Subject: Gravestone
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NT1867, 78 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ian Dodds   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 21 August, 2021   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 24 August, 2021
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NT 1835 6761 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:53.6800N 3:18.4318W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NT 1835 6761
View Direction
South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
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