Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Bailie Andrew Moncrieff Memorial.
SC 739318
Description Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Bailie Andrew Moncrieff Memorial.
Date c. 1885
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739318
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of F 1973
Scope and Content Inscription on the Mural Monument to Bailie Andrew Moncrieff, 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 the mural monument to Bailie Andrew Moncrieff (1563-1631) is in sunk letters, and covers two panels which are separated by an upright moulding or pilaster. The left-hand panel is indecipherable, and the right-hand panel, inscribed in Scots, is only faintly traceable. On 17th-century monuments the inscriptions are often in Latin, or in a mixture of Latin and Scots. The lettering is in Roman capitals, with a stop after each word in the form of a dot or a lozenge. The letter 'W' appears as overlapping 'V's, the 'J' as 'I', the 'U' as 'V', and there is often binding of the uprights of the letters 'H' and 'E', and 'M' and 'E'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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