Identifier: gri_33125013643560 (find matches)
Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874
Subjects: Church architecture Architecture Castles
Publisher: London, Published by the author
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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e twa part allowit to him in his stipend to be thekings third.* Grose says:— At the Reformation this Church was ordered by the General Assembly to bedemolished as a monument of idolati-y; notwithstanding which, the east window and part of thewalls are still remaining; from which it appears to have been a very plain building. In thechurchyaid is a vaulted mausoleum of a polygonal figure, formerly the burial place of the familyof Logan of Restalrig; it afterwards became the property of the Lords of Balmerino, and at presentbelongs to the Earl of Moray. In this vault are the remains of many persons of quality andfashion: one inscribed Lady Janet Ker, Lady Rcstabig, quha departed this Ufe 17 May, 1526.Over this vault is a high tumulus of earth, planted with yew trees, which, with the surroundingtombs or burial places, all neatly filled up and preserved from the depredations of the parsonscattle and the idle boys of the parish, have a most solemn effect.t * Hutton MSS. f Antiquities, 42.
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