Gravestone with four poster bed St Mary's Kirkyard Banff
Location
St Mary's Kirkyard Banff
Banff, Banffshire
OS Map Reference
NJ 690 640
Description
An 18th century stone carved with two angels one holding a trumpet the other an hourglass, both hold truncheon like objects in their other hands, they flank the deceased who is lying in a grand full canopied bed above a memento mori skull.
Era
1700s
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Categories
Iconography
- angel or winged figure
- human figure
- memento mori
External Links
Photographer
- David Watson Hood
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