Gravestone with four poster bed St Mary's Kirkyard Banff

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

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Photographer

  • David Watson Hood

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