St. Mary's Graveyard, Renaissance style enclosure

Location

St Mary's Graveyard, Banff
Banff, Banffshire

OS Map Reference

NJ 690 640

Date

1698

Description

Renaissance style memorial complete with Corinthian columns and trumpeting angels. The relief lettering is badly eroded and now mostly illegible. However it is given in Annals of Banff list of inscriptions (see external link) as
"Memento mori. Time Flieth, Death persueth, Mind Mortality, Conquer Eternity. Sub hoc cippo reconduntur exuuiae generosae mulieris Sabellac Ogilvie, Gulielmi Scott aurificis huiusque urbis burgen: quondam coniugis quae fatis cessit 15 Augusti ann. dom. 1697 aetatis suae 55 ille . . ."

Related Information

Scheduled ancient monument. St. Mary's Churchyard, contains an outstanding collection of monumental sculpture, many of which display symbols of mortality. Erected in1471 this medieval church was demolished in 1797, with only the vaulted South/ Banff Isle remaining,which is the burial vault of the Ogilvy family.

Era

1600s

Information Source

The Historic Kirkyards of Aberdeenshire A Survey Report, Aberdeenshire Council 1998
Aberdeenshire Sites and Monuments Record www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/archaeology/smr/
RCAHMS http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/
ANNALS OF BANFF INDEX TO THE OLD CEMETERY
http://gen.deltanz.net/gen/banff/banffindex.html

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Categories

• Monumental
• Other Memorials and Grave Art

Iconography

• angel or winged figure
• heraldic motifs
• memento mori

External Links

• ANNALS OF BANFF INDEX TO THE OLD CEMETERY

Photographer

• David Watson Hood

Unavailable Data

• Creator