The Story of The Old West Kirk of Greenock 1591-1808
Title: The Story of The Old West Kirk of Greenock 1591-1808
Author: Ninian Hill
Publisher: James M'Kelvie & Sons, Greenock
Date: 1898
Hardback - 1st Edition. 90 pp. Illustrated with b/w photography with tissue guards. Top gilt edged pages.
Synopsis
Ninian Hill opens his history and description of the Old West Kirk of Greenock with: "In a quiet corner at the foot of Nicholson Street, out of sight and mind of the busy throng that passes along the main street of our town, hidden amidst high tenements and warehouses, and overshadowed at times by a great steamship building in the adjoining yard, is to be found the Old West Kirk.
The author provides a brief history of the Church, first opened in 1591, being the first Presbyterian church built in Scotland following the Scottish Reformation. A section of the book is dedicated to the history and description of the pre-Raphaelite stain glass windows created by none other than Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Madox Brown, and Sir E. Burne-Jones brough together by Mr. Allan Park Paton, for many years librarian of the Greenock Library. The result is that the Church has four masterpieces of unsurpassed beauty.
The final chapter is a history of the Kirkyard and highlights the grave of Mary Campbell originally of Dunoon but better known as Highland Mary whose "youth, beauty and Innocence" won the heart and inspired the immortal Muse of Robert Burns" as recorded on her tombstone(1842)
Condition Notes
This rare edition is in excellent condition with cloth bound cover and de-bossed titles. All full page illustrations have tissue guards and there is gilt edging to along the top pages.
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