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View of standing tombstone with winged soul above Deid Bell, hour-glass, coffin, Sexton's tools, bones and skull, St Mary's Church burial ground, Banff.

SC 801753

Description View of standing tombstone with winged soul above Deid Bell, hour-glass, coffin, Sexton's tools, bones and skull, St Mary's Church burial ground, Banff.

Date 8/1965

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 801753

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BN 179

Scope and Content Written on verso of the mounted print: 'Shire: Banffshire. Place: Banff. Building: St Mary's Church, Carmelite Street. Photographer: G.N. Date: August 1965'. Gravestone with winged soul and emblems of death, St Mary's Church and Burial-Ground, Church Street, Banff, Aberdeenshire This shows a gravestone with a winged soul (symbol of the spirit ascending to Heaven after death) at the top, and a variety of death emblems below. These include a large skull and bones, with a row of smaller items including a spade and turf-cutting spade (gravedigger's tools), a coffin, the 'deid' (dead) bell (rung at funerals), and an hourglass, which symbolises the swiftness of mortal life. Death or mortality emblems on Scottish gravestones include coffins, 'deid bells', bones, skulls, skeletons, sexton's (gravedigger's) tools, hourglasses and the scythe and dart (weapons of Death). When strung together on ribbons they may also represent trophies of Death, held by the Cord of Life. They were intended to remind the viewer of the power of death, and encourage the living to lead virtuous lives in order to ascend to Heaven after death. This gravestone dates from the mid-18th century, and stands amongst many other such memorials in a crowded burial-ground which dates from the medieval period. Most of the monuments date from between the 16th century and the 19th century. No details of the inscription are available. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference MW/BR/BAN/153

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/801753

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

Collection Hierarchy - Item Level

Collection Level (551 6) Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Group Level (551 6/4) Photographs by Ministry of Works

>> Sub-Group Level (551 6/4/5) Banffshire

>>> Batch Level (551 6/4/5/2) Banff August 1965

>>>> Item Level (SC 801753) View of standing tombstone with winged soul above Deid Bell, hour-glass, coffin, Sexton's tools, bones and skull, St Mary's Church burial ground, Banff.

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