Scotland

Old St Kentigern church and churchyard, Lanark, Lanarkshire

Visited in July 2022

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Old St Kentigern church and churchyard, Lanark, Lanarkshire
Old St Kentigern church, legend says that the famous William Wallace was married with Marion Braidfute, daughter of the Earl of Lamington in this church
The arcade of the church collapsed on a night of April 1954
Near the south door of the nave, chest tomb with mortality symbols
Small graves, sometimes with mushroom shaped, aned sometimes with carving letters on top
Headstone with mortality symbols and winged hourglass
Monument wall for John Orr (died 1708) and Susanna Hay 
John Liddle, a weaver in Lanark who died some time in the eighteenth century. On this face of the stone, a winged soul rises above a tasselled swag filled with bones (notes of Betty Willsher)
Some stones are subject to erosion and weathering