Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Lindsay of Wormiston memorial.

Description Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Lindsay of Wormiston memorial.

Date c. 1890

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

Catalogue Number SC 739329

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 1964

Scope and Content Mural Monument to the Lindsays of Wormiston, 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 early 18th-century mural monument to the Lindsays of Wormiston, a large, stone-built rectangular enclosure built against the south wall of the churchyard, stands at the main entrance to the church. Its ornamental west front (seen here) is crowned by a lofty pediment which is carved with the family coat-of-arms and bears the initials 'P L' and 'K B' for Patrick Lindsay and his wife, Katherine Bethune. Below is a large rectangular slab, flanked by scrolls, with an almost illegible inscription in Latin. Iron gates lead into the enclosure where family members are buried. Wormiston, a medieval estate with a large 17th-century mansion house north of Crail, was purchased in 1621 by Patrick Lindsay, a burgess of Cupar and a merchant in St Andrews. His grandson, Patrick, whose initials and that of his wife, Katherine Bethune, appear on the tomb, succeeded to the estate in 1666. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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