Small statue of a parakeet and garden trug on a plinth
IN MEMORY OF SUSANNAH ALICE STEPHEN
KEEP YOUR FACE TOWARDS THE SUN
& THE SHADOWS WILL FALL BEHIND YOU
1960-1997
'Zannah Stephen loved the closes off the Royal Mile. The site in James Court was appropriate for two reasons: as a landscape architect, she knew that Patrick Geddes, a great town planner and creator of garden spaces, had lived there; the court is overlooked by the room in the Free Church of Scotland building (to the north) containing an etched portrait of her ancestor Alexander Moncrieff of Culfargie, one of the four brethren of the first major secession in the Church of Scotland in 1733. The room also contains the carved wooden chair in which Moncrieff prayed through the night before the signing of the historical document'. (http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/event/613802/)