Edinburgh, Kirk Loan, Corstorphine Churchyard. View of tombstone with curved broken pediment top with central cherub face. A large open-mouthed green-man mask below. The main inscription has figures t ...

Description Edinburgh, Kirk Loan, Corstorphine Churchyard. View of tombstone with curved broken pediment top with central cherub face. A large open-mouthed green-man mask below. The main inscription has figures to either side of men reaping and sowing, standing on skulls and crossed bones. Insc: 'Here Lys Francis Glog Tennant in Corstorphine who died November 11th 1739. Aged 72 years. Also Elizabeth Bury his spouse who dies september 17th 1748 aged 72 years'.

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

Catalogue Number SC 560109

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ED 15534

Scope and Content The headstone of Francis Glog, Corstorphine Old Parish Churchyard, Corstorphine, Edinburgh Corstorphine Old Parish Church, dating from the early 15th century, stands in Kirk Loan, at the historic centre of the old village of Corstorphine. The churchyard, which surrounds the church on three sides, contains many interesting old headstones. This headstone to Francis Glog of Claycott, a church treasurer who died in 1739, is carved with figures sowing grain and reaping with a sickle. At the top, under a youthful face, is a Green Man, and at the bottom, a skull and crossed bones. The symbol of the sower and the reaper is a favourite subject in East Lothian and Midlothian, especially on memorials to farmers. The skull and crossed bones are symbols of death, and the Green Man may represent life springing out of death. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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