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CHAS’ & RUBY’S
2006 UK TOUR

Thursday, June 1st:
CULROSS ABBEY
CHURCH

These pix were taken in the vestibule at the entrance to the church.

I’m not sure WHY there is a HEAD stuck up in that window!


A couple shots of the area where Sunday services are STILL held.


I can’t find any information about who these two folkz were …

But, it’s pretty clear that SOMEONE didn’t like them!
“Within the parish church, off the north
transept is the Bruce vault with its
magnificent alabaster funeral monument of
Sir George Bruce, his wife and 8 children.”

This thing is
HUGE!!!

The uppermost section of engraving reads:

THIS IS SIR GEORGE BRUCE OF CARNOCK
HIS LADY HIS THREE SONS AND FIVE DAUG
HTERS THIS TOMB WAS PROVIDED BY GEORG
EBRUCE OF CARNOCK HIS ELDEST SON

Hey! Those are the engraved “line-breaks!”

Can we say, “LONG-WINDED”? I think we CAN!
HERE
IN SURE HOPE OF A BLESSED RESURRECTION
ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF
ELIZABETH
THE WIFE OF
SIR ROBERT PRESTON BART
OF VALLEYFIELD
BORN III OCT. HDCCLXV DIED XIV FEB. MDCCCXXXII
HIGH ATTAINMENTS AND MORAL WORTH
FERVENT PIETY AND MEEK HUMILITY
COMBINED TO FORM THE GRACES
OF HER CHRISTIAN CHARACTER
INDULGENT IN HER JUDGEMENT OF OTHERS
TO HERSELF SEVERE
ENDEARED
BY FRIENDLY BENEVOLENCE
TO ALL PLACED
WITHIN THE SPHERE OF HER INFLUENCE
A BLESSING TO THE POOR
A COMFORT TO THE AFFLICTED
RESPECTED AND BELOVED
WHILE SHE LIVED
SHE DIED
HONOURED AND LAMENTED

The last bit (besides being punctuated!)
is a LITTLE less Long-Winded:

HERE ALSO, ARE DEPOSITED,
THE REMAINS OF
SIR ROBERT PRESTON, BART..
OF VALLEYFIELD,
WHO DURING HIS LONG LIFE,
WAS HIGHLY ESTEEMED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM,
AS A VALUABLE COUNSELLOR,
AND WARM FRIEND.
HE DIED AT VALLEYFIELD.
VII, MAY MDCCCXXXIV

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