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"The real moon outshone the paper one, and, from a distance, it was impossible to distinguish the light flooding through the film scenes from the light flooding through stained glass." My optimistic-ish @heraldscotland.bsky.social call-to-arms on Glasgow's future. (with HTs to Italo Calvino).

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#CeilingsOnSunday. Glasgow City Chambers.

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#StainedGlassSunday The four seasons by #DanielCottier in Knockderry House Hotel, Cove, Argyll. Photos from 2008.

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Read our latest "Love Your Local Church" blog as the Rev W Gerald Jones reflects on the special place that the historic Straiton Parish Church in South Ayrshire holds in his heart. #SteepleSaturday 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/love-yo...

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#DogWalkDay The lodger has refused to go out in the rain for two days but today was dry, if somewhat muddy. Lots of water around. Here she is at the Jesus well, where the water is unfit for human consumption.

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#SteepleSaturday Schloss Weimar, Thüringen. Photo from 2004.

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Desperate plight of Scotland's religious built heritage merited front page coverage again on Friday. We had a very positive meeting in Dec about this issue with Culture Cab Sec Angus Robertson MSP, we hope his meeting with Church of Scotland is equally useful. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2493332...

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Donner und Blitzen here just now.

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Some snaps of our trust chairperson, Prof Adam Cumming, at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway this afternoon to give a talk on our National Bard's connections to churches in Ayrshire.

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Our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Pencaitand Parish Church has a history going back to the 12th century with connections to William the Lion and Robert the Bruce. The striking tower, square and hexagonal, is both a belfry and a dovecot. 🧵1/2

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Where the 2022 Scotland’s Churches Trust Gathering was held. @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social The eighth one I’ve attended.

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#Victorian #occupations immortalised on gravestones. St Mary's Greyfriars church graveyard, #Dumfries, #Scotland. #artisan #tradesman #trade

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An Edinburgh parish church will be closed and put up for sale later this year, the Church of Scotland has confirmed. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2493288...

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Kirkmadrine Church in the Rhins of Galloway, in the far south-west of Scotland, whose porch is home to a collection of the oldest known Christian monuments in Scotland outside Whithorn. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Galloway #KirkmadrineChurch #CarvedStones

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The Press & Journal has revealed plans to turn Burghead Parish Church in Moray, that closed in Dec 2023, into a supermarket. In 2011, Scotmid successfully converted the former Church of Scotland kirk in Torphins into another branch of their chain of shops. www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/mora...

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"The hidden gem Edinburgh church that is Scotland's 'own Sistine chapel'" Lovely piece about the magnificent Mansfield Traquair Centre, built by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson and exquisitely beautified inside by the Victorian artist Phoebe Anna Traquair 👇 www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now...

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Just poking around the church in Edinburgh where Agatha Christie married her second husband.

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Our canine lodger is definitely a full time job. Her owners said she’d sleep all day but that’s not the case here. She’s also as black as the Earl o’Hell’s waistcoat and we can’t see her eyes.

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The wonderful band of volunteers from the Inverclyde Church Recorders were out documenting another closing church on Saturday. This time they visited the beautiful B-listed Cathcart Old Parish Church, which very sadly held its final service in November last year. (1/2)

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#MementoMoriMonday Gravestone, in Restalrig churchyard, of army surgeon, Samuel Scott, who died at Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh, in 1825. Johnston’s Roll of army medical officers notes with a ‘P’, that he served in the Peninsular war, when he was with the 5th Dragoons.

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The lodger has arrived, so we’ll have plenty to keep us occupied for the next week and a bit.

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#CeilingsOnSunday St Mary’s Scottish Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.

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#StainedGlassSunday Crombie Window, St Andrew Blackadder church, North Berwick. By Mary Isobel Wood. Obituary of Dr Crombie from BMJ, 1920.

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This new website is phenomenal: 3 million records covering 5,000 years of Scottish history, pulling together various resources from Historic Environment Scotland into one platform. Great stuff 👏

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#SteepleSaturday The former St Andrew’s Church of Scotland, Gibraltar. Photo from 2009.

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'My love is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June': I played it at the station, but Their piano's no' in tune. I plinked and plonked the ivories, And some were slow or mute, I'll no' be playin' there again, Of that, I ha'e nae doubt.

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Valentine’s Day hasn’t been celebrated here for at least 58 years but I do have an RAMC sweetheart brooch from #WW1.

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Really like this #StainedGlass in Helensburgh Parish Church. Designed by Wm Leiper and installed by J&W Guthrie. In memory of Olivia Aitken, who died in 1890. When her husband died in 1923, the inscription was altered to include him.

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It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Symbols of Mortality Conference Programme is available to peruse/download via the link below. 👍😀💀 www.lorraineevans.com

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St Andrew’s Church, Clermiston, Edinburgh, by Basil Spence & Partners (1957-9). Parish church with free-standing bell tower. On a terraced site in a post-war suburb. Set to close and be sold. #Edinburgh #architecture www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur... 📷 2010 flic.kr/s/aHsjESLBBU

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If you fancy hearing me talking about my adventures as I travelled along a Roman Road through Scotland, join me for a free illustrated online lecture organised by the Roman Road Research Association on Thursday, 20 Feb 2025 19:30 Book your place here: shorturl.at/hCLPS #RomanFortThursday

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Our Collections Officer, Danielle Dray, explores the history of the Royal Army Dental Corps in this new blog. You can read it here: https://buff.ly/3CPJ4IX

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#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass gave his first speech in Scotland at Glasgow's City Hall. 'He did not mean to dispute the existence of much misery & suffering in this country; but he denied that they had slavery here'. bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

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Brilliant journalism, by @danigaravelli.bsky.social, who has covered these awful events with admirable diligence, insight and compassion – and now writes the definitive piece on the subject, for @londonreview.bsky.social.

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Minister of Dunfermline Abbey: "Congregations of buildings of national importance should not be solely responsible for the bulk of repair, maintenance and sustainability of a historic building of this standing". She's right www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Dunfermline Abbey Church, where the bones of King Robert the Bruce are interred, is facing an £8m bill to repair and upgrade the building. Read more here 👇 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Following the breakdown of the historic church's sale to a private bidder, the Friends of the Old High Church in Inverness are once again attempting to gauge public support for a community-owned future for this iconic building. Full story here 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2492489...

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People of #Inverness, please club together £150k and buy this lovely church! 😍

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In our latest blog, retired minister, Rev George Cringles grapples with the feelings of loss and grief that often accompany the closure of a beloved church building and he reflects on how "place" fits into a wider theological context. Read here 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/stone-a...

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