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Field Visit
Date 6 July 1909
Event ID 1095999
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1095999
103. Recumbent Effigy, Dornoch Cathedral.
At the W. end of the nave lie the mutilated remains of a recumbent effigy on the top of a sarcophagus, said by Sir Robert Gordon to be that of Richard Murray, a brother of Bishop Gilbert, slain at the battle of Embo. The figure is shown as clad in chain mail, covered with a surcoat having a bordered edge at the neck and arm holes. The head of the figure, resting on a small square cushion, is detached. The upper part of it is broken off and the features effaced. The arms are gone, also the lower half of one of the legs and part of the remaining foot. There has apparently been a shield resting on the left breast, and the knight has been girt with his sword. The legs have been crossed and have rested on the back of a lion. The full length of the figure is 6’ 11". The sarcophagus is 7' long, 1' 4" high, 1' 11" wide at the head and 1' 6" at the foot. The cushion projects 7" beyond the top of the sarcophagus.
See Origines, ii. pt. ii. p. 624; Gordon, p. 33; Pennant (1769), p. 359.
OS 6-inch map: Sutherland Sheet cxiii.
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 6th July 1909
