Oldhamstocks Kirk
Posted in Architecture, History at 20:00 on 5 July 2019
Part of Oldhamstocks Kirk (see previous post) is very old:-
This cartouche on the end wall is dated 1381, or is it 1581?
It’s balanced on the other side of the window by a cartouche containing a coat of arms. Probably the local laird’s in mediæval times:-
One of the graves in the Kirkyard is of a Polish Cavalry Officer, Henry Teofil Kosinski, Major, Polish Cavalry, and farmer, died 12/9/1957, aged 65:-
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Oldhamstocks, East Lothian, Scotland | Pining for the West
6 July 2019 at 23:50
[…] I’m amazed to discover that it’s almost two years since we visited the tiny village of Oldhamstocks in East Lothian. We had seen a road sign pointing the way to it and it seemed such an incongruous English sounding name for its East Lothian location that we made time to have a look at it. It’s really wee with just 193 inhabitants according to Wiki, but it has a church so it is offically a village – not a hamlet. The church was consecrated way back in 1292. You can see photos that Jack took of it here. […]