Logierait Parish Church. General view of gravestone commemorating Margaret McIntosh, 1800. Winged Soul over sock and coulter of the plough, arrow of death, hourglass, skull and crossed bones, linked b ...

Description Logierait Parish Church. General view of gravestone commemorating Margaret McIntosh, 1800. Winged Soul over sock and coulter of the plough, arrow of death, hourglass, skull and crossed bones, linked by a thread of life. Digital image of PT 15099.

Date 1984

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

Catalogue Number SC 803509

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 15099

Scope and Content Gravestone of Donald McNab, Logierait Parish Church and Churchyard, Perth & Kinross This stone features a large winged soul (symbol of the spirit ascending to Heaven after death) within an ornate border which incorporates flaming and extinguished torches (this double emblem represents the opposite states of life and death). Below the soul are carved the sock and coulter (metal parts) of a plough, the emblem of a farmer. Beneath the leafy mantling around the shield is a ribbon inscribed 'Memento Mori' (remember you must die). A row of death emblems laced together to form a 'trophy' further reinforce this message. They include the arrows of death, an hourglass (emblem of life's brevity) a skull, and crossed bones. Scottish gravestones feature a wealth of imagery and symbolic devices which represent trade emblems, symbols of death and resurrection, and Biblical scenes. They offer a fascinating insight into how our ancestors saw themselves and how they wanted to be remembered, as well as providing a store of information for people interested in family or local history, and folk art. This gravestone commemorates Donald McNab, who died in 1747. It is inscribed: 'HERE LYES THE DUST OF/DONALD MCNAB HUSBAND TO/...FERGUSON WHO DIED/...NOVEMBER 1747/THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY JAMES MCNAB & ANN/OUAN HIS SPOUSE IN MEM/ORY OF HIS FATHER'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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