View of monument set in wall beneath window.
SC 400118
Description View of monument set in wall beneath window.
Collection Photographs by Lester Birley
Catalogue Number SC 400118
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of RC 1312
Scope and Content Interior, Douglas burial-aisle, Fearn Abbey (now Parish Church), Hill of Fearn, Highland Fearn Abbey was founded in 1238 by the Earl of Ross. Only the church survives. Built between 1338 and 1372, it became a parish church in the 16th century. Its roof collapsed in 1742, but it was brought back into use in 1772. This late 17th-century monument bearing the arms of Ross and Douglas is mounted on the north wall of the Douglas burial-aisle, itself constructed in the 17th century. 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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