Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards

Author(s): S. E. Thornbush and Mary J. Thornbush

DOI: 10.2174/9789811441264120010008

Mortality, Salvation, and Remembrance Motifs

Pp: 65-81 (17)

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Abstract

SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.

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This chapter presents the range of motifs found in churchyards and kirkyards based on still-upstanding headstones belonging to Anglican and Presbyterian parish sites. A range of motifs were discovered on what are referred to as ‘motifed’ headstones as those headstones that had a legible date of death and contained motifs. Table seriations were produced to convey these findings. Floral motifs were most popular, followed by urn and cross motifs – the cross motif was commonly introduced between 1800 and 1849 in England and Inverness. Motifs of mortality, such as urn, torch, and hourglass, were present in England on legible headstones, but were not evident on motifed headstones in Scotland.

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