Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Ballie Andrew Daw, primus, tombstone.

Description Crail, Marketgate, Churchyard. Ballie Andrew Daw, primus, tombstone.

Date c. 1890

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

Catalogue Number SC 739339

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 1957

Scope and Content Mural Monument to Bailie Andrew Daw (primus), 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 Andrew Daw (primus), who died in 1613, is built into the west wall of the churchyard. It has become separated into two parts, probably in 1792 when most of the west wall was rebuilt. To the left, beneath a crowstepped moulding, are the large, raised initials 'A D', and to the right is a slab, flanked by fluted columns, with a inscription in Latin and Scots in raised letters. On monuments of the 17th century, the inscriptions were often in Latin, or in a mixture of Latin and Scots. The lettering was in raised Roman capitals and usually had a stop after each word in the form of a dot. Before 1616 inscriptions were carved round the edge of the stone, but on Andrew Daw's memorial the inscription is horizontal, cut on the centre face of the slab. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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