View of gravestone for Catherine Menzies and Agnes Ballantine, dated 1811, in the burial ground of Dunkeld Cathedral.

Description View of gravestone for Catherine Menzies and Agnes Ballantine, dated 1811, in the burial ground of Dunkeld Cathedral.

Date 1987

Collection Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 1571452

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of A 34453

Scope and Content Gravestone of Catherine Menzies and Agnes Ballantine, Dunkeld Cathedral Burial-Ground, Dunkeld, Perth & Kinross This tall gravestone is very finely sculpted in Neo-Classical style. It features fluted pilasters and a broken pediment which encloses a flaming urn, symbol of eternal life. In the centre of the stone is a panel flanked by fan motifs. This is inscribed: 'This truth how certain/When this life is o'er/Man dies to live and lives/To die no more'. The lower panel is carved with a representation of the tools of a mason, the dividers and set-square, surrounded by a delicate incised border. The whole effect is in marked contrast to earlier more naïve monuments with their bold emblems of death and judgement, one of which can be seen in the foreground of this image. This gravestone commemorates Catherine Menzies who died in 1792, and Agnes Ballantine, who died in 1811. It is inscribed: 'Erected by George McFarlane in memory of his wife/Catherine Menzies who died at Inver 5th April 1792 aged 32/ & Agnes Ballantine wife of Robert McFarlane Mason in/Dunkeld who died 21st June 1811 aged 20 yeas'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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