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January 24th, 2012
George Durie
George Durie [Dury confused by Watt & Shead with Drury] (d. 1577), abbot of Dunfermline and archdeacon of St Andrews, son of John Durie of Durie in the county of Fife, and brother to Andrew Durie, bishop of Galloway, was born about 1496. From 1527 till 1530 he acted as judge and executor of the [...] Read more...January 24th, 2012
The entire edifice suddenly parted in two
ONE of the chief ” lions ” of the High Street, if not perhaps the oldest stone building is the ancient manse of John Knox, which terminates it on the east, however it was inhabited long before his time by George Durie, Abbot of Dunfermline who was also arch-dean of St. Andrews. He was promoted [...] Read more...January 24th, 2012
Archaeological dig at High Level Bridge reveals secrets
TIMES may seem tough in the current economic squeeze but a city centre dig suggests that our Tyneside ancestors had rather more to bleat about. Two arches of the High Level Bridge, opposite the Bridge Hotel in Newcastle, have been investigated by archaeologists. They were called in after preliminary boreholes in advance of renovation work [...] Read more...Regular posts
January 25th, 2012
Rosslyn Chapel.
Rosslyn Chapel, properly named the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew, was founded on a small hill above Roslin Glen as a Roman Catholic collegiate church (with between four and six ordained canons and two boy choristers) in the mid-15th century. Rosslyn Chapel and the nearby Roslin Castle are located at the village of Roslin, Midlothian, [...] Read more...January 25th, 2012
Scottish Knights Templar
Since the mid nineteenth century myths, legends and anecdotes connecting the Templars to the Battle of Bannockburn have been created. Degrees in Freemasonry, such as the Royal Order of Scotland, allude to the story of Rosslyn and the Scottish Knights Templar.This theme was repeated in the pseudohistory book The Temple and The Lodge by Michael [...] Read more...January 25th, 2012
Templar Lands
At the foot of the Bow, and on the west side chiefly, were a few old tenements, that, in consequence of being built upon ground which had originally belonged to the Knights of the Temple, were styled Templar Lands, and were distinguished by having iron crosses on their fronts and gables. In the “Heart of [...] Read more...January 25th, 2012
James Gordon of Rothiemay (c. 1615 – 1686)
James Gordon of Rothiemay has an important part to play in the story of Pont’s manuscript maps. First, he assisted his father, Robert Gordon of Straloch, when he undertook work on Pont’s maps for Joan Blaeu, who was basing the Scottish volume of his Atlas novus on the work of Pont and needed certain maps [...] Read more...January 25th, 2012
Dingwall’s Castle
BUILT no one knows when, but existing during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there stood on the site now occupied by (What was) the new General Post Office, an edifice named Dingwall’s Castle. In 1647, Gordon of Rothiemay, in his wonderfully distinct and detailed bird’s-eye view of the city, represents it as an open ruin, [...] Read more...January 25th, 2012
The old Theatre Royal had an unpleasant tenant
The old Theatre Royal had an unpleasant tenant in the shape of a ghost, which made its appearance, or rather made itself heard first during the management of Mr. Jackson. His family occupied a small house over the box-office and immediately adjoining the theatre, and it was alleged that long after the latter had closed [...] Read more...January 24th, 2012
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