Posted in Architecture, War Memorials at 20:00 on 19 October 2023
On the opposite side of the B 827 to Comrie’s War Memorial is this turreted building:-
The building corners on to a street called Field of Refuge:-
The plaque seen here just above the lamppost has the inscription, “In Memoriam, 1914 1918”:-
Posted in War Memorials at 12:00 on 19 October 2023
Comrie‘s War Memorial is a plain Celtic Cross on a square tapering base set in a memorial garden just south of the River Earn off the B 827.
Dedication. Great War Names on main cartouche, Second World War names below. The lowest wording says, “Mighty by Scarifice.”:-
More Great War nNames are given on the Memorial’s sides:-
Along with more Second World War names:-
Just to the side is a commemoration of a VC recipient, Second Lieutenant John Craig, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 5/6/1917:-
Posted in Architecture at 12:00 on 18 October 2023
Comrie is a village in Perth and Kinross, lying almost halfway between Crieff and Loch Earn.
It has on its High Street a Charles Rennie Mackintosh building, complete with corner turret and the sort of external render familiar from Hill House. Not exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to see in a small Perthsire village.
The church in the background above is perhaps Comrie’s most prominent building, best seen from the bridge over the River Earn. For obvious reasons this, the former parish kirk, is known as the White Church. It is dedicated to the obscure saint, Kessog:-
