Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Treasurer Allan Millar's Monument.

Description Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Treasurer Allan Millar's Monument.

Date c. 1885

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

Catalogue Number SC 739321

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 1970

Scope and Content Inscription on the Mural Monument to Treasurer Allan Millar, 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 Treasurer Allan Millar, who died in 1630, is in incised characters in a mixture of Latin and Scots. In common with most lettering on 17th-century Scottish monuments, there is a stop after each word in the form of a dot, the letter 'U' appears as 'V', the letter 'W' as overlapping 'V's, and the 'J' as 'I'. Erskine Beveridge (1851-1920) 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 and other civic dignitaries of Crail. He published his work in 1893 in 'The Churchyard Memorials of Crail', an exhaustive account of the ecclesiastical history of the church and its churchyard. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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