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Robertson Mausoleum, Old High Kirk. General view of Mausoleum.
SC 399151
Description Robertson Mausoleum, Old High Kirk. General view of Mausoleum.
Collection Mrs D Will
Catalogue Number SC 399151
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 97149 PO
Scope and Content Robertson burial-enclosure, Old High Church, Church Street, Inverness Old High Church consists of a tower, possibly of a 16th-century date, with a main block built in 1769-72 to designs by George Fraser, Depute Auditor of Excise in Edinburgh, based on Buccleuch Church in Edinburgh. The Robertson burial-enclosure was built in 1664-5 by James Gordon and William Durham, masons. Inside is a wall monument to Hugh Robertson, who died in 1703. Burials inside churches were banned in 1581. Wealthy families got around this by converting disused religious structures into mausolea, by adding burial-aisles to churches, and, in the 17th century, by creating separate burial-enclosures. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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