Reference

Date 1996

Event ID 923240

Category Documentary Reference

Type Reference

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/923240

(Graveyard of a parish whose church was transferred to Langholm in 1702). Most of the monuments are 19th cent. but there is a line of 18th cent. headstones, carved with enblems of death and angels' heads (souls). To their SW, a grander version of the same type, commemorating Thomas Houd (died ?1747) with inept Ionic pilasters. Nearby, a stone to the wife of James Cranstoun (died 1725), its front carved with a strapwork cartouche containing the half-length figure of a woman; at the top, drapery and an hourglass and skull. In the SW corner, an 18th cent. heraldic stone with vines at the sides and an angel's head at the top.

J GIfford 1996.