Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Tomb of Bailie John Wood of Sauchope.
SC 739308
Description Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Tomb of Bailie John Wood of Sauchope.
Date c. 1890
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739308
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of F 1978
Scope and Content 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.1890. This monument to Bailie John Wood of Sauchope (1681-1723) lies in the west wall of the churchyard. It is built in grey stone, with pairs of Roman Doric columns flanking a white marble slab bearing an inscription in Latin. It is topped with a broken pediment with a scroll ornament, and the initials 'J W' for John Wood, and 'B B' for his wife, Beatrice Brown. In the 18th century, mural monuments were often elaborate, of great size and elegance with fashionable architectural features, and were usually built into the walls surrounding the churchyard. At Crail, the west wall of the churchyard contains ten such monuments, eight of which commemorate former bailies (municipal officers and magistrates) of the town. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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