The Netflix Graveyard | West Kirk | Culross
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2022
- Apparently West Kirk in Culross was used in the Netflix show Outlander, I haven't seen it, nor did I know at the time of filming...but it seemed like a catchy title.
Situated to the northwest of Culross in West Kirk Churchyard and surrounded by agricultural land, this was the former parish church of Culross. It was replaced by the Abbey Parish Church (site number: 1642) by an Act of Parliament of 1633. However, it appears that the church had been out of use for some time before this, as the Act records that it was already in a ruinous condition. The church is now roofless and a large tree grows inside the western end of the building and much ivy on the walls. The graveyard is surrounded by low rubble boundary walls, which are in a poor state of repair in several places, and is entered at the southeast corner, where there are square gatepiers. In general the graveyard is relatively flat but the church is on a slightly higher area on the northern side. There is a large variety of headstones and table stones within the graveyard dating from the seventeenth -nineteenth centuries. The earlier monuments display symbols of death and mortality and a number of trades are also depicted, such as farmer, mariner and miner.
A late nineteenth century rectangular mausoleum is just outside the western edge of the graveyard, surrounded by sandstone rubble walls. There are three round arched openings in the northern, eastern and southern faces of the mausoleum, each of which is covered by decorative ironwork, but only those on the eastern face are accessible as gates. Each elevation is flanked by column shafts cut into the quoins. The interior of the mausoleum is largely overgrown but several memorial stones to the Dalgleish family are on the back (western) wall.
#Culross #Fife #Scotland
Great video. Just found your channel a few weeks ago.
Thank you very much for sharing this unique location🪦⛪
Glad you enjoyed it Brenda
During 1962, as an 11-year-old, I 'resided' in High Valleyfield. I often cycled a mile or so to Culross to get away from the 'others' who lived in HV. It was a dive.
Culross and environs kept me sane.
Many other young life experiences available ...
Thank you, D G W.
Rab ⏰ 🎲 🌠 🕊
Thanks for sharing Rab, it’s good to get a bit of an idea about the places I go to. Keep the life experiences coming!
@@deadgoodwalks 👍🏻
wow.......some old ones
PPS. Your timestamp 6' 23": Torrybut[=]n represents *Torryburn* ...
Torryburn (previously called Torry/ Torrie) is a village and parish in Fife, Scotland, lying on the north shore of the Firth of Forth. It is one of a number of old port communities on this coast and at one point served as port for Dunfermline. It lies in the Bay of Torry in south-western Fife.
The civil parish has a population of 1,587 (in 2011).
Also:
*Torryburn Witches - A Famous Fife Witch Pricker*
In the small village in West Fife, named Torryburn, the Reverend Allan Logan the local minister was famed throughout Scotland for his skill in his detection and hunting down of witches. During his communion services he would suddenly glare fiercely down at his assembled congregation then, pointing his finger, would loudly and dramatically shout : 'You witch - wife, rise from the Tables of the Lord.' So confident was his accusation that on almost every occasion some terrified old woman would instantly hurry from the church to be met and arrested outside by the local Baillie and his armed men.
*Torryburn Witch Burnt*
In the small village of Torryburn in the west of Fife in the year 1704, an old woman, Lillias Adie, was accused of bringing ill health to one of her neighbours, a certain Jean Nelson. Summoned before the ministers and elders of Torryburn church, poor old confused Lillias confessed that she was indeed a witch. She told the grim-faced committee of church elders that she had met the Devil in a corn field and had excepted him as her lover and master. The terrified woman described how she and the Devil had led many others, whom she named, in a wild heathenish dance. According to Lillias, a strange blue unearthly light had appeared and had followed the dancers around the corn field. Her tales grew wilder and wilder and were eagerly accepted as proof of her dealings with the Devil. Lillias was, according to the official records, 'Burnt within the sea mark'.
Them was the breaks ...
I've heard of this witch tale before, Is she the one that's allegedly buried under a rock on the shore at Torryburn? Superb info again Rab, thank you
@@deadgoodwalks I will have a look for any info re the burial, D G W! All the best. Rab. 😎
@@deadgoodwalks
Latest Digest, D G H:
Lilias Adie's first name also appears as Lilly and her last name was also recorded as Addie and Eddie. In 1704, Adie was held in prison for the crime of practising witchcraft. Her story is preserved in the 1704 Kirk session minutes.
Illness among local residents created a brief but intense period of witch-hunting in the Fife area. A woman named Jean Bizet had accused Adie of witchcraft, proclaiming, 'beware lest Lilias Adie come upon you and your child'. This resulted in the arrest of Adie, who was likely upwards of 60 at the time.
Adie was taken to the local minister, Rev. Allan Logan to answer for the crime of witchcraft. For over a month, she was imprisoned and subjected to day after day of rough interrogation before she finally 'confessed'.
*Confession*
Adie's 'confession' explained how the devil had been wearing a hat when he first visited her in a cornfield at sunset the first time they met. Under the minister's questioning, she described how the devil had lain with her carnally and made her renounce her baptism. She detailed his physical appearance as having 'cold pale skin and cloven-hoofed feet like a cow'.
After that first encounter, the devil would then meet her at her house 'like a shadow'. Adie elaborated that she had gone to other meetings and cavorted with the devil with other witches. Despite repeated questioning, Adie would not provide the names of these other witches. Lilias Adie died before her investigation was concluded.
*Burial site - Torryburn Bay*
In 2014, interest in Adie's story encouraged the historian and BBC broadcaster Dr. Louise Yeoman and Douglas Speirs, an archaeologist at Fife Council, to look for her burial site. Using 19th-century historical documents, they found a seaweed-covered slab of stone exactly where the documents described: in a group of rocks near the Torryburn railway bridge lay: 'The great stone doorstep that lies over the rifled grave of Lilly Eadie', and a rock with 'the remains of an iron ring'.
Lilias Adie had been buried on the beach at Torryburn Bay, in a 'humble' wooden box, under this sandstone slab between the low and high tide marks. The 'hulking half-ton' stone was indicative of locals' fears that the devil might reanimate her to 'torment the living'.
*Missing remains*
Her remains were dug up by antique-collecting grave robbers in 1852. At the time, it was reported that the coffin was 6 feet 6 inches (about 1.98 m) long. Her thigh-bones were found to be of comparable length with those of a man who was 6 feet (about 1.8 m) tall. She still had most of her teeth, which were 'white and fresh'. The skull was in the private museum of Dunfermline antiquarian, Joseph Neil Paton in 1875. It was exhibited to the Fifeshire Medical Association in 1884 by a medical doctor from Dunfermline named Dow. It was eventually held at the Museum of the University of St Andrews, but has since disappeared. The skull was exhibited in 1938 at the Empire Exhibition at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, its last known location.
Adie's coffin was also a source of souvenirs: a walking stick, believed to be made from the wood of her coffin and with a silver band near the handle engraved with 'Lilias Addie, 1704', was donated to the Pittencrieff House Museum in Dunfermline in 1927.
Hope this helps, D G W.
R 👋
Thats brilliant, thank you
It's actually Starz not Netflix but good enough
*Pronounced 'Coo-ris'.* *Coo-ris!*
R 👋
PS. The grave-shovel represents the *Salt Pans Industry.*
I am available to hopefully render some groundwork historical facts if necessary.
Offenceless. Just a helping mind.
Rab 💚
I need all the help I can get Rab, I'm learning as I go
The grass is so green and lush among the headstones.🪦