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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 21h

Day 8 of #31DaysOfGraves - Animal This is the lion at the foot a medieval knight's effigy located inside the early 19thC Ceres Church, Fife. The recumbent figure is in superb condition, having been discovered buried nearby. It offers a wonderful insight into the lost medieval church on this site.

A carved stone lion looks outwards towards the camera. Two carved armoured feet are using it as a footrest.

This image shows the rear side of the carved stone lion, its head and shoulders covered in a luxurious mane.

An image of the entire recumbent medieval knight, wearing armour and holding his hands clasped in prayer, both feet resting on the lion.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 20h

"Glasgow archdiocese to close 24 churches in restructure" In a letter to local Roman Catholic congregations, Archbishop William Nolan has confirmed that plans are now in place to reduce the number of parishes in the Glasgow Archdiocese by half and close 24 of its churches. (Images: Flourish)

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We had a wonderful time yesterday working with some amazing volunteers who joined us from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, local universities and a local church, along with a few of our own fabulous veteran church recorders, as we began to document St Margaret's Chapel in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh.

A group of people stand smiling on a the steps of a church with a red door behind them

A picture of St Margaret's Chapel, part of the Gillis Centre in Edinburgh. It shows the church on a very sunny day (taken some weeks ago during the summer). A Gothic building, with four pinnacles and a small spire piercing the blue sky above.

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NEWS: New Impact Report Celebrates Recent Society Achievements Highlights include over 56,000 downloads of our open access e-books, over £30,000 of grant funding awarded to research projects, and over 1,500 total attendees at our public events programme: www.socantscot.org/news/new-imp...

Person looking beneath a rocky outcrop; overlaid text reads: Annual Impact Report

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Daliburgh Church in South Uist and Griminish Church in Benbecula are scheduled to be closed and marketed by the Church of Scotland. They are part of the Parish of Uist and Barra. See the Hebrides News article here 👇 www.hebrides-news.com/church-of-sc...

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‘Winds of change’ affect Church of Scotland in Uist and Barra

‘Winds of change’ as Church of Scotland in Uist and Barra set to close two churches and sell manses

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The canine lodger has arrived and will be taking over our lives for the next two weeks. We took her for a long walk this afternoon but she is now demanding to be fed. It’s not time yet.

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Glasgow Times @glasgowtimes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The new centre will celebrate the pioneering work of Alf Webster, a talented artist who sadly died in the First World War.

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Scotland's first stained glass museum to open in landmark Glasgow church

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Day 6 of #31DaysOfGraves - Weather This carving, on a Celtic cross in the Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, depicts the funeral of Lt John Irving, a member of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition that disappeared while searching for the Northwest Passage in 1845. Lt Irving's body was discovered in 1879.

Stone base of a monument, showing a carved scene depicting two sailing ships trapped in ice, with a party of sailors in winter clothing performing a funeral on a rocky shore. Beneath the scene the Latin words "Decorum est pro patria mori" have been carved, translated as "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country".

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Day 5 of #31DaysOfGraves - Vehicle A memorial stone raised in 1765 by the "Society of Coach Drivers" in the graveyard of the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, to remember its members who would be buried therein in unmarked graves. It shows a horse-drawn coach crossing one of the city's bridges.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So was the music. There was an evangelical service taking place during Doors Open Days last Sunday. Somewhat loud.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The kirk session of St Mary's Parish Church Kirkintilloch has asked for a review of its local Presbytery's decision to close their historic kirk in favour of retaining instead St David's Memorial Park Church. The closure threat comes amidst a nationwide rationalisation programme by the denomination

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Day 4 of #31DaysOfGraves - Entrance This remarkable Victorian memorial, depicting the entrance to the Egyptian Land of the Dead, behind an incredible carved sandstone palm tree, is located in the Grange Cemetery, next to Marchmont St Giles Church, Edinburgh It was carved by sculptor Robert Thomson

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Dr Valentina Bold @valbold.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Beautiful day at Cowden Gardens

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Day 3 of #31DaysOfGraves - Glass Scotland has been endowed with a remarkable inheritance of of 18th century #MementoMori symbol laden monuments, but many are now fragile and endangered. In 2008, this early example of an Adam & Eve stone in Lyne Kirkyard was restored and placed in a glass case.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 1 of #31DaysOfGraves - Flower This fine pair of daisies, a symbol of innocence, purity, and gentleness, can be seen in Currie Kirk in Edinburgh. Thank you @annaandthedead.bsky.social for pulling together a series of daily prompts, we will be sharing more from Scotland in the coming days! 🪦

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The interior of our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, St Vincent's Chapel, Edinburgh, holds many treasures, including heraldic shields and a collection of vestments. There are many stained glass windows of interest. More here 👇 www.stvincentschapel.org.uk/stained-glass/ #WindowsOnWednesday 🧵1/2

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#OTD in 1915, husband‘s great uncle died of injuries sustained at Loos. He was 20 years old and studying for the Civil Service. Remembered in Clarkston Church and on Airdrie Academy War memorial. Not Forgotten.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 29/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish medical history. Finally James Young Simpson gets a moment of peace, locks himself in the toilet and sits down on the throne to enjoy a cheeky half hour of me time with the latest issue of Nuts magazine.

Statue of James Young Simpson in Edinburgh, he looks a bit like he's sitting down on the toilet leafing contemplatively through a book

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We‘d visited two of them before but the others were really interesting. One was the church in Chariots of Fire and two were Georgian buildings in Leith. However, the highlight was undoubtedly the film on Saturday at Norton Park- the Singing Street-and the outstanding lecture by @threadinburgh.scot

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This compact, mid 19th century Gothic architectural gem, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, St Vincent's Chapel, Edinburgh, was designed by Scottish brothers John, William H. and James M. Hay, often referred to simply as the Hays of Liverpool, where their thriving architectural practice was based. 🧵1/2

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Managed to visit five #DoorsOpenDays buildings today. Photos of four. Still drying out.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Doing a rather wet #DoorsOpenDays and, for #CeilingsonSunday, here is the ceiling in Lyon & Turnbull, auctioneers, Edinburgh.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And to meet you, too. We really enjoyed your talk. Proper local history.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Have been to an absolutely fascinating lecture on the film from 1951, the Singing Street, given by @threadinburgh.scot Andy Arthur, at Norton Park for #DoorsOpenDays. Here’s an article by him on the former school, where the film he discussed was made. threadinburgh.scot/2026/09/14/s...

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Will ask the Scottish Stained Glass Trust.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 25/09/2026

This William Wilson stained glass panel is a thing of beauty (and yours for opening bids of £1,200). Can anyone hazard a guess where it might have come from? cc @jeelyeater1.bsky.social @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social

Stained and painted glass panel, a bold mid-20th century design c. 1955 but also in a much older tradition.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We have this, dedicated to his wife, on our bookshelf but must confess we haven’t read it.

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Research in Action on Church Heritage @churchheritage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Want to get involved in recording Scotland’s church heritage? We’re looking for volunteers to join us at Brechin Cathedral on Friday 9th October to help with heritage recording as part of our ReACH case study.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, St Margaret's, Newlands, Glasgow, the floor has a marvellous mosaic. It was laid in 1958 to celebrate the church's 50th anniversary. The mosaic shows children, plus their playthings, and represents children from past congregations. #MosaicMonday

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I took it because of the notice!

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#StainedGlassSunday By Herbert Hendrie in Kippen Kirk, Stirlingshire.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bring back lots of memories of the five years we lived there in the 90s.

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Bobbie Johnson @bj13johnson1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Heritage Open Days. Haslar Heritage Group

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 13/09/2026

📣 Important PSA! 📽️ I'll be screening and talking about the wonderful 1951 short film "The Singing Street" on next 2 weekends. 📅 19th & 20th, 10AM, Abbeyhill School with Colony of Artists 📆 26th, 12 Noon, Norton Park Centre with Doors Open Day 🎫 Free, unticketed, arrive early to avoid disappointment

A little poster for the event with some stills from the film and the dates and places. "“A WONDERFUL PICTURE OF EDINBURGH – as true perhaps as has ever been put on the screen” The Scotsman"

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The secretary of the Scottish Stained Glass Symposium and Trust is Rona Moody. She’s on secretary@ssgt.org.uk

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Paisley Abbey is #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek. 6th century Irish missionary St Mirin is said to have raised a church on a plot near the river where the town of Paisley now stands, known as St Mirin’s Croft Prior. After his death, the church became an important pilgrimage site for the Celtic Church 🧵1/3

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Robert M Ross @bob.omg.lol · 06/09/2026

@jeelyeater1.bsky.social for your viewing pleasure, as seen in Milngavie United Free Church

Detail of the maker's name - Sadie McLellan, Glasgow, 1944

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thanks. Always good to see a Sadie McLellan window.

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Robert M Ross @bob.omg.lol · 06/09/2026

Two enamelled City of Glasgow coats of arms at Loch Katrine @glasgowcoa.bsky.social

plaque commemorating 100 years of the water supply for Glasgow at Loch Katrine

Close up of the coat of arms on previous picture

cairn to commemorate the Glen Finglas Works at Loch Katrine, again featuring the City of Glasgow coat of arms

detail of the coat of arms from the previous photo

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#StainedGlassSunday Window by Daniel Cottier, in the cludgie of Leith and Restalrig church, Leith Walk. Warm welcome when we visited the church recently. First visited in 2011 with the Scottish Stained Glass Symposium.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#MerchantNavyDay My dad was in the Merchant Navy in the early 1920s, on the SS Argyllshire. He fell down the hold and ended up in an Australian hospital, with a broken ankle. Newspaper report is inaccurate.

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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The name of a Scot who died in the Holocaust after refusing to abandon Jewish children in her care has been added to a special memorial wall at Auschwitz www.heraldscotland.com/news...

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The gabled front of our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Houston & Killellan, has a colonnette-spoked wheel window and some lovely stained glass throughout the church by artists such as William Wilson and Douglas Strachan. 🧵1/2 📷Church's own

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Gothic revival church, Houston & Killellan Kirk, our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek was constructed in 1874-5 by Glasgow architect David Thomson, replacing an earlier kirk of 1775. Thought to be the 3rd church on the site, it was built in memory of Captain Archibald Alexander Speirs of Elderslie. 🧵1/2

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Made it up to the Knock viewfinder this morning. First time this year and definitely won’t be doing it again soon. Steep and stony and the descent was worse than the ascent.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Local community given exclusive opportunity until 1st Nov 2026, by Church of Scotland, to raise £50k to buy Parton Kirk in Dumfries & Galloway. Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell is buried outside and would be focus of next chapter for the historic building 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (1/2)

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Parton church purchase plan would honour James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell's work paved the way for devices such as mobile phones, radio and television.

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