WHERE HIGHLAND MARY LAY
Some years ago, wishing to extend their Clycle shipyards, the firm of Harland and Wolff bought the Old West Kirk at Greenock, built in 1559, actually the first Protestant. Church built in Scotland. It. wis a rflne old building, decorated with stained-glass windows by Burnd-Jones and. Eossotti, among others, and its threatened removal caused a furore locally. Messrs. Ilarland and Wolff, however, undertook to remove the church stono by stone to another site; and at -last the work lias been completed at very considerable cost, the keys having been handed to tlic minister only the other tiny. The interest of the church to literary folk lies in the fact that Mary Campbell, Jiunis's "Highland Mary," and James Watt's father'ami grandfather wore buried in the churchyard. These remains were sonio time ngo reintcrrod in Grccuock Cemetery, .which stands high on the hill overlooking the Firth of Clyde.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 21
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