Flisk Parish Church
Church (18th Century), Churchyard (Post Medieval), Gravestone(S) (17th Century)
Site Name Flisk Parish Church
Classification Church (18th Century), Churchyard (Post Medieval), Gravestone(S) (17th Century)
Canmore ID 31843
Site Number NO32SW 47
NGR NO 31393 22501
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/31843
- Council Fife
- Parish Flisk
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
Field Visit (17 June 1925)
Tombstones, Flisk Church.
Within the churchyard of the present church, lying near or against the southern wall, are four 17th-century tombstones. These are recumbent slabs, coped and carved with the usual funeral emblems. The only one which is inscribed reads: HERE . LYES . THE . REVEREND . MR . IOHN . MAKGILL . SON / TO . THE . LAIRD . OF . RANKILOVR . AND / MINISTER . AT . FLISK . WHO . LABOVRED . IN / THAT . CHARGE . 50 . YEARES . HE . DIED. IN .THE . YEAR . 1659 . MARCH . 22 . OF . HIS . AGE . 77.
The second stone bears a sword on one side and has at the foot a shield charged with a mullet between three cocks, for Cockburn of Henderland ; beside the shield the initial C. can be deciphered.
The third stone bears a shield parted per pale: dexter, a chevron between three boars' heads couped; sinister, a chevron between three boars' heads erased; above the shield are the initials R.B.
The fourth stone is a recumbent slab, now in two portions. It is very worn, but appears to have a quartered shield at each corner and a marginal inscription, which may possibly be of the 16th century.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 17 June 1925.
