Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID # |
2017.045.135 |
Object Name |
Collage |
Title |
Cross formed from 1860s Nails from the Historic Leith Church |
Year Range from |
2001 |
Year Range to |
2005 |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
Leith, Municipality of Meaford, Grey County |
Description |
A rectangular commemorative item, made of salvaged wrought iron nails sand and cardboard? The sand nails were adhered to the cardboard in a cross configuration and framed in a wooden rectangular frame in 2001. |
Provenance |
Unknown maker. The nails were formerly used in the construction of the Leith Presbyterian Church. Its first service was held on Sunday, January 26, 1866. These nails were in the Leith Church during the restoration of the interior, Spring, 2001. The sand is from the Water O' Leith, which flows behind the pioneer cemetery. The item was made? saved? by the "Friends of the Leith Church" group, and Donna McKay-Mills collected it from them after July 30, 2001. Donna is descended from the Hugh and Jeanette McKay family, who farmed one mile north of Leith. The McKays attended the church, and most of the family are buried in the adjacent churchyard. This church later became the Leith United Church after church union in 1925. |
Collection |
Religious Collection |
Material |
Iron |
Found |
Leith, Municipality of Meaford, Grey County |
People |
McKay, Hugh McKay, Donald Gordon (Doug) McKay, James Wesley (Wes) McKay, Olive McKay-Mills, Donna Thomson, Tom Lang, William (Dr.) Ainslie, Adam Ainslie, Isabella Rutherford, Thomas |
Subjects |
Blacksmithing Blacksmiths Churches Hardware Presbyterian churches Hardware Nails & spikes Crosses Religion Religious architectural elements |
Search Terms |
Leith United Church (former Leith Presbyterian Church) Leith (Village and area of) Sydenham Township |