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Detail of monument to George Heriot Senior.
SC 560059
Description Detail of monument to George Heriot Senior.
Catalogue Number SC 560059
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 9507
Scope and Content Mural monument commemorating George Heriot (Senior), Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh This monument commemorates George Heriot, royal goldsmith, who died in 1610. His son George (famously known as 'Jinglin' Geordie') founded Heriot's Hospital for orphans (now George Heriot's School). Carved on the upper panel of the stone are a variety of emblems signifying death and mortality, such as the hourglass, skull and crossbones and crossed coffins. On either side of the armorial panel are the tools of a goldsmith's craft. The 16th-century church and churchyard of Greyfriars takes its name from a Franciscan friary which stood at the east of the Grassmarket until 1558. In 1562, Greyfriars became the Burgh burial-ground in a Crown grant made by Mary Queen of Scots. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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