General view of gravestone commemorating John King, 1764. Rosette and angel with trumpet with scroll emerging.
B 42930/36
Description General view of gravestone commemorating John King, 1764. Rosette and angel with trumpet with scroll emerging.
Date 1993
Collection Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland
Catalogue Number B 42930/36
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 801778
Scope and Content Gravestone of John King, Old Parish Church, Boyndie, Aberdeenshire This gravestone features an angel of the Resurrection, wearing a sash and loincloth, trumpeting to awake the dead on the Day of Judgement. The scroll issuing from the trumpet provides a resting place for the angel's feet, and carries an inscription which includes the lines: 'Arise ye dead'. At the top of the stone is a rosette, an emblem of rebirth. The imagery of many Resurrection scenes found on gravestones is derived from the following text from I Corinthians 15: 51-2: 'Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed'. This gravestone commemorates John King, who died in 1764. It is inscribed: 'Here lies the body of John King/sometime in Dolohie who/departed April ye 29 1764/Erected by Margaret Bunce/his loving spouse'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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