Duddingston Kirk

[1] The church was built in or around 1124 by Dodin, a Norman knight, on land granted to Kelso Abbey by King David I of Scotland.

The entrance to the kirkyard from Duddingston village is notable for its gatehouse, built as a lookout point to deter "bodysnatchers" in the early 19th century.

The Edinburgh bodysnatchers, known as "resurrectionists", stole recently buried corpses to sell to anatomists, and, as in the notorious case of Burke and Hare, sometimes also resorted to murder.

[3] A famous and widely admired minister in the early 19th century (1805–1840) was the Reverend John Thomson, a notable painter and friend of Raeburn and Turner.

The succession of ministers since the Reformation was: The north triple window in the gallery is dedicated to Joan Carfrae, wife of the famous detective, Allan Pinkerton, who was born in Duddingston in 1822 and died in Chicago in 1887.