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Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Year: The Bruce Monument, Culross Abbey Churchos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1887 1887 (1880s)
Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930
Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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T. EST PRIMITI^ OBDORM I ENTIVM. Alongside the panel containing the first of the above inscriptions are the arms of Sir George Bruce and those of his wife, Margaret Primrose; and in the upper panel the Bruce arms again occur, with supporters and mantlings. On the left hand side of the lower pedestal of the monument is the inscription, john-mercer-fecit, from which it would appear that the monument itself was of native workmanship, although the alabaster statues were probably imported. It differs considerably in design from most of the other Renaissance monuments illustrated, and has rather some affinity with native works, such as Heriots Hospital. Between the pilasters, at the recess for the figures, the width is 6 feet7; inches. The recess itself is 5 feet 9^ inches long by 2 feet 6^ inches deep and 4 feet 1 inch high. At this stage the total width is 8 feet3; inches. The whole height of the monument, which reaches the summit of the roof, is about 22 feet. THE BRUCE MONUMENT 207 FOURTH PERIOD
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Fig. 1318.- The Bruce Monument, Culross Abbey Church. FOURTH PERIOD 208 THE BRUCE MONUMENT On the floor in front there lies a loose deal plank, about 12 feet long, with the following inscriptions painted upon it:— L DYED L L DYEDAK ~ C B VK 9thJuly 1680 12thJanuary 1680 28thAprin701Aged 51 Aged 20 Aged 60 DYED AK 10th November 1705Aaed 39 The plank is only a fragment, and probably the missing part contained obituary notices of the eight children of Sir George, if the first mentioned was not actually one of them. The monument is said to be * a close imitation of that of Edward, Lord Kinloss, Sir Georges elder brother, erected in the Rolls Chapel, Chancery Lane, London. This appeared to us to be a very un-likely circumstance, and we have obtained, through the kindness of Mr. W. F. Lyon, architect, a sketch(from which Fig. 1319 is copied) of the monument in the Rolls Chapel, a comparison of which with that at Culross shows how very unlike the two are to each other. The London monument is evident

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