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View of tombstone to John Michie's children 1738 depicting winged soul in pediment, St Mary's Church burial ground, Banff. Two standing figures in panel below, one playing trumpet and the other holdin ...
SC 801755
Description View of tombstone to John Michie's children 1738 depicting winged soul in pediment, St Mary's Church burial ground, Banff. Two standing figures in panel below, one playing trumpet and the other holding hour-glass. Inserted between figures is death bed, skull and bone.
Date 8/1965
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 801755
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BN 164
Scope and Content Written on verso of the mounted print: 'Shire: Banffshire. Place: Banff. Building: St Mary's Church, Carmelite Street. Tombstone to John Michie’s children 1738. Photographer: G.N. Date: August 1965'. Gravestone of John Michie's children, St Mary's Church and Burial-Ground, Church Street, Banff, Aberdeenshire This gravestone features a pointed tympanum (top part) filled with a winged soul (symbol of the spirit ascending to Heaven after death). The lower panel contains a complex scene around a death bed (centre). Two angels on globes flank the bed, one with a trumpet to raise the dead on the Day of Judgement, the other with an hourglass, symbolising Time. The skull and bone beneath the four-poster bed symbolise death. Gravestones highlight the beliefs of the people who commissioned them in a very direct way. This example places death emblems below the death bed to remind the viewer of the horror and reality of death, urging them to live virtuous lives before they are raised from the grave on the Day of Judgement. This gravestone, which dates from the mid-18th century, commemorates the children of John Michie. It is inscribed: 'Here/Layes Alex/John & Alex/Michies Lawful Ch/ildren to Jo Michie & Eliz Farquharson...'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference MW/BR/BAN/138
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