2021
NT1867 : Cross in Currie Kirk Graveyard
taken 3 years ago, near to Currie, Edinburgh, Scotland
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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