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Forrester tomb effigies, Corstorphine Kirk
Members of the Forrester family who held the lands of Corstorphine and founded a chapel (Adam Forrester, 1404) and a collegiate church (John Forrester, 1429). The dog at Sir John Forrester's feet faces inwards, suggesting that the figures originally adorned a pre-Reformation tomb in the body of the kirk, but were later moved and had their relative positions swapped to make his lordship more visible than his spouse.
Edinburgh, Kirk Loan, Corstorphine Parish Church
In 1128, Corstophine Church, then a dependent chapel of St Cuthbert's, was granted to Holyrood Abbey by David I. This chapel was a church before 1158. In this church were altars to the Holy Trinity and St Ann (mentioned in the latter part of the 15th century).
In the churchyard and adjoining the aforementioned church, a chapel dedicated to St John the Baptist was founded by Sir Adam Forrester, of Corstorphine (died pre- 1405). His son, Sir John Forrester, erected the chapel into a collegiate church pre-1436/7. An inscription in the church attributes the foundation to 1429. The foundation charter is no extant. Up to 1633 the collegiate church and parish church seem to have existed side by side. The collegiate church, however, was dissolved in 1634 and the collegiate building became the parish church in 1646 when the old parish church was removed and a new aisle, attached to the collegiate fabric, built apparently on the site of the old church.
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Edinburgh, Kirk Loan, Corstorphine Parish Church, interior. View of the tomb of Sir John Forrester I and his Lady, 1440. Niche with recumbant effigies in the North wall of the Chancel.
Edinburgh: Tomb of the Forresters Corstorphine Church
Corstorphine in Scotland
Corstorphine is a village and parish to the west of Edinburgh, now considered a suburb of that city
Sir John Forrester tomb (spouse hidden) in Corstorphine Old Parish Church
Sir John Forrester, who succeeded his father upon his death, was granted various lands, mostly in West Lothian, in 1426 which were united into the barony of Liberton. In Perth on 4 February 1431 James I confirmed him in the house and lands of Corstorphine which would be thereafter known as the Barony of Corstorphine. He likely founded the Corstorphine Collegiate Church in 1429, which forms part of today's parish kirk. Sir John is thought to have died in 1448 and was buried in Corstorphine Kirk where recumbent effigies of him and one of his wives survive. He had four children: John, Henry, Elizabeth, and Janet.
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Sir John "Libertine" Forrester, 2nd of Corstorphine