Stone

Records tagged with Type of Memorial: Stone

Stone in gatepost, dedicated to Susan Ferrier

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

SUSAN FERRIER
writer
born 7 SEPT 1782 died 5 Nov 1854

Material: 
Stone
Location:
East Morningside House
Clinton Road
Edinburgh
Images: 
Stone plaque dedicated to Susan Ferrier
Stone plaque dedicated to Susan Ferrier

Memorial to Janet Horne

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

1722

[This is actually incorrect - it should read 1727]

Material: 
Stone
Location:
Private garden
Carnaig Street, Littletown
Dornoch, IV25 3LT
Images: 
Janet Hornes stone
Janet Hornes stone
Additional information: 

Janet Horne was the last person in Britain to be tried and executed for witchcraft. In 1727 she and her daughter were arrested and jailed in Dornoch. Her crimes, according to her neighbours, were devilish; she was accused of turning her daughter into a pony, and of getting Satan himself to shoe the horse/girl. At the time of her execution Janet Horne was showing signs of what we would recognise today as senile dementia. Her daughter appears to have had a deformity in her hands and feet, a condition which it is believed she subsequently passed on to her son. The trial was rushed. Captain David Ross, sheriff-depute of Sutherland, found both women guilty and ordered that they should be burned to death the following day. The younger woman escaped but Janet was clearly confused by events. She was stripped, covered in tar and paraded through Dornoch in a barrel. When she arrived at her execution place, Janet is said to have smiled and warmed herself at the very fire which was about to consume her.

Stone marking the resting place of a barrel containing a witch.

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

From Cluny Hill, witches were rolled in stout barrels through which spikes were driven. Where the barrels stopped, they were burned with their mangled contents. This stone marks the site of one such burning.

Material: 
Stone
Location:
Outside the Police Station
Victoria Road
Forres, IV36 3BN
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Memorial stone to Mary McCallum Webster

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

In memory of MARY McCALLUM WEBSTER FLS 1906-1985
A botanist who was an expert on the plants of the Moray area and wrote The Flora of Moray, Nairn and East Inverness.
Her ashes were scattered here, at her own request, in the Culbin Forest she knew so well and among the wintergreens, her favourite plants

Erected by: 
The Moray Field Club
Designed by: 
Ian Suttie in conjunction with Moray Stone Cutters. Drawing by Mary Byatt
Date: 
2003
Material: 
Stone
Location:
Culbin Forest
IV36
Images: 
Memorial to Mary McCallum Webster in Culbin Forest (photo by Amanda Thomson)
Memorial to Mary McCallum Webster in Culbin Forest (photo by Amanda Thomson)
Additional information: 

The drawing on the plaque is of the one-flowered wintergreen, Moneses uniflora, Mary McCallum Webster's favourite flower.

Jane Haining Memorial Stone

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

The Stone from Auschwitz
is in memory of
JANE HAINING
Scottish Missionary and all
others who died in the death camp

Material: 
brass
Location:
On The Vigil for the Scottish Parliament Cairn at the South East corner of
Calton Hill, Abbeyhill
Edinburgh, EH7 5AA
Images: 
Jane Haining plaque
Jane Haining plaque
Jane Haining plaque
Jane Haining plaque

Dr Elsie Maud Inglis - Medical Practice

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

ELSIE MAUD INGLIS

Founder Scottish Women's Hospitals
France, Serbia, Russia 1914-1918,
Practised medicine here 1898-1914

Material: 
Sandstone
Location:
No. 8 Walker Street
Edinburgh, EH3 7LH
Images: 
Dr Elsie Maud Inglis - Medical Practice

Inscribed paving stone in memory of Dorothy Dunnett

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

Where are the links of the chain joining us to the past?
Dorothy Dunnett 1923–2001

Erected by: 
Selected by the Saltire Society, the first twelve writers and quotations were sponsored by Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd (LEEL) in association with the City of Edinburgh Council
Designed by: 
The project was designed and implemented by Carter McGlynn, Landscape Architects. The original twelve stones were carved by David Lindsay and Graciella Ainsworth. All subsequent stones were carved by David Lindsay of Stoneworks
Date: 
1997 or later
Material: 
Stone
Location:
Makars’ Court
Lady Stair’s Close
Edinburgh, EH1 2PA
Images: 
Paving stone

Memorial stone dedicated to Mary Erskine

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

IN MEMORY OF
MARY ERSKINE
WHO WITH
THE COMPANY OF MERCHANTS OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH
FOUNDED
THE MERCHANT MAIDEN HOSPITAL

BORN 12 MAY 1629
DIED 2 JULY 1707

Location:
Greyfriars' Kirkyard, Greyfriars' Tolbooth and Highland Kirk
Candlemaker Row
Edinburgh, EH1 2QA

Memorial stone dedicated to Helen Walker

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

This stone was erected By the Author of Waverley to the memory of Helen WALKER who died in the year of God 1791. This humble individual practised in real life the virtues with which fiction has invested the imaginary character of JEANIE DEANS. Refusing the slightest departure from veracity even to save the life of a sister she nevertheless shewed her kindness and fortitude in rescuing her from the severity of the law at the expense of personal exertions which time rendered as difficult as the motive was laudable. Respect the grave of poverty when combined with love of truth and dear affection.

Erected by: 
Sir Walter Scott
Material: 
Stone
Location:
In the graveyard, close to the East door of Kirkpatrick Irongray church
Kirkcudbright
Additional information: 

The monument is a stone sarcophagus surrounded by iron railings.

OS Grid NX 91512 79570

Memorial to Elyza Fraser

Dedicated to: 
Inscription: 

Sacred to the memory of Elyza Fraser, late possessor of this castle (i.e. Castle Fraser) who departed this life on the 8 Jan 1814, aged 80. Distinguished by her intellectual attainments, polite accomplishments and still more by those virtues which dignify and exalt human nature, after a life spent in the uniform and active discharge of every Christian duty.

Erected by: 
Elyza Fraser erected the memorial. Her nephew, Charles Fraser, added her details.
Location:
Miss Bristow's Walk, in the grounds of Castle Fraser
ABD
Additional information: 

This memorial was erected by Elyza Fraser to her friend Mary Bristow, and Elyza Fraser's details were added subsequently. It's a square memorial, about 7ft high.

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