Detail of monument to Thomas Bannatyne dated 1638.
SC 560114
Description Detail of monument to Thomas Bannatyne dated 1638.
Collection Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 560114
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 4265/7
Scope and Content Mural monument commemorating Thomas Bannatyne, Greyfriars burial ground, Edinburgh This elegant early Renaissance monument commemorating Thomas Bannatyne, who died in 1635 aged 65, was erected by his wife Janet MacMath. It is thought that Thomas was a nephew of the famous collector of Scots poetry, George Bannatyne. At the centre of the pediment an angel holding aloft a book (presumably the Bible) crushes a skeleton, symbolising the soul's victory over death. To the right is a recumbent figure of Father Time, wielding his familiar hourglass and scythe. 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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