Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Tomb of John Wood of Sauchope, detail.

Description Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Tomb of John Wood of Sauchope, detail.

Date c. 1890

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 739307

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 1979

Scope and Content Inscription on the Mural Monument to Bailie John Wood of Sauchope, Crail Parish Churchyard, Crail, Fife The old tree-lined churchyard of Crail Parish Church contains an important collection of mural monuments dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Scottish photographer, Erskine Beveridge, made a detailed photographic record of the mural tombs and their epitaphs on a visit to the churchyard c.1885. The inscription on this white marble slab, which forms the centrepiece of the mural monument to Bailie John Wood of Sauchope who died in 1723, is in Latin. It records that Wood was the son of Dr John Wood, minister of Kilrenny, and his wife, Christian Moncrieff, and that he was married to Beatrice Brown. Erskine Beveridge (1851-1920), an amateur photographer and enthusiastic archaeologist, carefully recorded the epitaphs on the tombstones in the churchyard, translating the Latin inscriptions, and producing a unique photographic record of the mural monuments, many of which commemorate former bailies of Crail. He published his work in 1893 in 'The Churchyard Memorials of Crail', an account of the ecclesiastical history of the church and its churchyard. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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