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See also:CULROSS (locally pronounced Coo-rus) , a royal and See also:police See also:burgh, Fifeshire, See also:Scotland, 62 m. W. by S. of See also:Dunfermline and 21 M. from See also:East See also:Grange station on the See also:North See also:British railway See also:company's See also:line from Dunfermline to See also:Stirling. Pop. 348. Until 1890 it belonged to the detached portion of See also:Perthshire. Attractively situated on a hillside sloping gently to the Forth, its placid old-See also:world aspect is in keeping with its See also:great antiquity. Here St Serf carried on his missionary labours, and founded a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church and See also:cemetery, and here he died and was buried. For centuries the townsfolk used to celebrate his See also:day (See also:July tat) by walking in procession bearing See also:green boughs. See also:Kentigern, the apostle to Cumbria and first See also:bishop of See also:Glasgow, was See also:born at Culross, his See also:mother having been driven ashore during a See also:tempest, and was adopted by St Serf as his son. These religious associations, coupled with the fertility of the See also:soil, led to the See also:founding of a Cistercian See also:abbey in 1217. O# this structure the only remains are the western See also:tower and the See also:choir, which, greatly altered as well as repaired See also:early in the 19th See also:century, now forms the See also:parish church. It is supposed that a See also:chapel of which some traces exist in the east end of the See also:town was dedicated to Kentigern. See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James VI. made Culross a royal burgh in 1588. In 1808 there was discovered in the abbey church, embalmed in a See also:silver See also:casket, still preserved there, bearing his name and arms, the See also:heart of See also:Edward, See also:Lord See also:Bruce of Kinloss, who was killed in See also:August 1613 near See also:Bergen-op-Zoom in a See also:duel with See also:Sir Edward See also:Sackville, afterwards See also:earl of See also:Dorset. See also:Robert See also:Pont (1524-1606), the Re-former, was born at Shirresmiln, or Shiresmill, a See also:hamlet in Culross parish. Nearly all its old industries—the See also:coal mines, See also:salt See also:works, See also:linen manufacture, and even the making of See also:iron girdles for the See also:baking of scones—have dwindled, but its pleasant See also:climate and picturesqueness make it a See also:holiday resort. Dunimarle See also:Castle, a handsome structure on the See also:sea-See also:shore, adjoins the site of the Castle where, according to tradition, See also:Macbeth slew the wife and See also:children of See also:Macduff.
End of Article: CULROSS (locally pronounced Coo-rus)
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