Maryton Churchyard, Angus. Headstone, James Orr, 1745 Digital image of AN 6631

Description Maryton Churchyard, Angus. Headstone, James Orr, 1745 Digital image of AN 6631

Date 1745

Collection Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 799285

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AN 6631

Scope and Content East face of the gravestone of James Orr, Maryton Parish Church and Churchyard, Angus This stone features two angels resting their heads on their hands, and holding trumpets to raise the dead from their graves on the Day of Judgement. Between them is a floral ornament which may also symbolise rebirth and resurrection. Scenes depicting believers rising from the dead on the Day of Judgement is common on many Scottish gravestones. The imagery is derived from the following text from I Corinthians 15: 51-2: 'Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed'. This gravestone commemorates James Orr, who died in 1745. It is inscribed: 'Here lyes James Orr husband/to Ann Hampton who lived/Sometimes in Bearmains of/Old Montrose and departed/this life Nov the 11 day 1745/aged 57 years together with 2/of his Children Jean and Charles/orrs who died young'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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