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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 755409
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/755409
NT73NW 4.01 Centred NT 7114 3830
Parish Church, Stichill.The church and the burial-enclosure at its E end are both modern, but the E wall of the latter rests upon an old foundation which may be that of a former church. A pier of masonry, conjectured to be part of the wall, stands a short distance to the SE.
The pier of masonry just mentioned forms a support for a mural monument of early 18th-century type. This monument has Ionic pilasters and a moulded entablature framing a panel from which the inscription has entirely disappeared. Only two other monuments in the churchyard fall to be recorded, both small headstones. One, which takes the form of a miniature mural monument, is inscribed in the tympanum MEMENTO MORI and below HERE LYES JAMES LAMB / TENNANT IN RUNN/INGBURN DIED JUNE / 23 1705 AGED 76 YEARS / AS ALSO ALISONE HOG/ART HIS SPOUSE DIED / MARCH 30 1686 AGE / 64 YEARS. On the back are the initials I L and A H followed by a verse:
NEAR TO THIS STANE A COUPLE LIES
THEY LIVE ABOVE & NO MORE DIES
THE POOR TUO PARENTS KIND HATH LOST
THEY TO RELIEVE THEM SPARED NO COST
THEY READY WERE TO HELP DISTRESD
WHICH TO THE (?BASE) DUST EXPREST
THEY ON THE WATERS CAST THEIR BREAD
THEY AFTERWARD IT FOUND INDEED
THE MERCY PROMISED TO SUCH IS NOU
BESTOUED THEM TO ENRICH
& NOU THEYR GONE TO HEAVENS GLOR
AND DO THE HOLY GOD ADORE
THE LAMB IS WORTHY OF ALL PRAISE
FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN OUR SOULS HATH (RAISE)
WHO HATH REDEEMED US BY HIS BLOOD
AND MADE US KINGS AND PREISTS TO GOD.
AMEN ALLELLUIA
The other is inscribed HEIR LYETH / WILLIAM WOOD/
WHO DEPAIRTED / THIS LIFE THE (?I)o / OF APR (I)L
16(?(77). On the back is a skull with cross-bones,
and the motto MEMENTO MORI above.
RCAHMS,visited 20 October 1937, 24 November 1951.
RCAHMS confirmed. The pier of masonry mentioned is at NT 7113 3827.
The parish church is still in use.
Visited by OS(WDJ) 29 June 1966.
