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Latitude: 55.8547 / 55°51'17"N
Longitude: -3.2077 / 3°12'27"W
OS Eastings: 324491
OS Northings: 663051
OS Grid: NT244630
Mapcode National: GBR 601R.B2
Mapcode Global: WH6T5.P3PJ
Plus Code: 9C7RVQ3R+VW
Entry Name: Watch House And Churchyard, Old Parish Church, Glencorse
Listing Name: Old Glencorse Kirk, Watch House Kirkyard and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 22 March 2001
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 395088
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB47754
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200395088
Location: Glencorse
County: Midlothian
Electoral Ward: Midlothian West
Parish: Glencorse
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Churchyard Watch house
Earlier 18th century with alterations. Single storey Watch House; sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; stone boundary wall.
S ELEVATION: door (later); blocked rectangular window to right, stone lintels.
E ELEVATION: blank; gablehead with stack; modern security lighting at gablehead.
N ELEVATION: coursed ashlar rear, no features; memorial wall adjacent.
W ELEVATION: not seen.
Original glazing pattern and roof lost.
INTERIOR: not seen.
KIRKYARD AND BOUNDARY WALLS: numerous "trade" gravestones and sepulchral monuments. Rubble boundary walls with copes.
B-Group with Old Glencorse Kirk. The Watch House was built possibly as an Offertory House, post 1711 then altered to protect newly buried bodies from grave robbers who came, stole corpses, then sold them to the School of Anatomy in Edinburgh. A family (Cowan/Sanford) burial ground is behind the structure, enclosure with inset memorial tablets in wall. The burial ground in which it is set features in 'The Body-Snatcher' and 'Weir of Hermiston' by Robert Louis Stevenson, who was a frequent visitor to the Old Kirk.
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