Forrester tomb effigies, Corstorphine Kirk
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Forrester tomb effigies, Corstorphine Kirk
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 26 Sep 2010
Members of the Forrester family who held the lands of Corstorphine and founded a chapel (Adam Forrester, 1404) and a collegiate church (John Forrester, 1429). The dog at Sir John Forrester's feet faces inwards, suggesting that the figures originally adorned a pre-Reformation tomb in the body of the kirk, but were later moved and had their relative positions swapped to make his lordship more visible than his spouse.
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Image Location
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55.941753
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-3.281405