Architecture Notes
Event ID 810269
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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Architect: Leadbetter (of Leadbetter & Fairley) 1914
Bedrule Church and Graveyard. The existing church is modern, but the following items are preserved within it. (A Inglis 1917)
(1) A very small but complete stone measuring only 2 ft. in length by 6 1/2 in. thick, with a greatest breadth of 9 1/2 in., on which is represented a figure clad in a robe reaching to the ankles. The head rests on a pillow and the hands are folded together upon the breast in the attitude of prayer. On the sinister side of the figure is a sword with straight quillons and lozenge-shaped pommmel.
(2) A fragment of a hog-backed tombstone measuring 1 ft. 3 1/2 in. in length by 7 in. thick, each side being 7 1/2 in. broad and showing three rows of shingle pattern.
(3) A fragment of another hog-backed stone about 9 1/2 in. in length, 1 ft. 4 in. in greatest breadth and about 9 in. thick, each side being 9 1/2 in. broad. It appears to have borne four rows of shingle pattern. The following tombstones are in the churchyard:
(1) A recumbent slab lying SE. of the church, on which is incised a sheild containing four pairs of initials, G T and H O accompanied by the date 1618, and I T and M T with the date 1638, as well as a device like a mallet head downwards. The lower part of the slab is occupied by a modern inscription commemorating members of the Davidson family.
(2) A large table-stone, probably of the early 18th century, standing on baluster legs, S of the church. The moulded edges are enriched with egg-and-dart ornament and probably cable ornament as well. On the upper surface a small shield, carved in relief, is charged: Within a bordure, a stag's head erased; in base a mullet for difference. This stone has not been inscribed.
(3) A second table-stone, side by side with the former, has a shield in the upper part, flanked by the initials G K and H T, and charged: A chevron, in base a battle-axe. Above the shield there runs a label, but the motto is illegible.
(4) A small headstone with scrolled top, also S of the church, bears on one side a palm branch and a human head, and below them the inscription: HERE LYES ELIZABETH / CHISHOLM WHO DIED / ANNO 1652 AND WAL/TER CHISHOLM WHO / DIED ANNO 1652 CHIL/ DREN TO WALTER CHISHOLM. The other side displays cornucopias and funerary emblems.
(5) A small headstone with a scrolled top, which stands near the gate giving entry from the manse, bears on one side the inscription : HERE LYES KETREN / SINKLER SPOWS TO / IOHN ALEXANDER / ANNO 1691. On the other side are funerary emblems.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1933 and 1937.
