Building record MAB40039 - ROSSIE ISLAND CEMETERY, BRAOCH ROAD, INCHBRAOCH

Graveyard, still in use, remains of a chapel and site of three pictish stones.

Graveyard, still in use, remains of a chapel and site of three pictish stones. The former church of Inchbraoch / Inchbrayock / Craig parish, dedicated to St Braoch in 1243 and ruinous by 1573. It was removed before 1684 although foundations are still uncovered in the vicinity of the vault which now occupies the site. The chapel site was transferred in the nineteenth century from Craig parish to Montrose. The graveyard which surrounds the eminence on which the church stood is still in use and three Early Christian stones have been recovered from it. Inchbrayock 1, now in Montrose Museum, is a Class II cross-slab which was found in the burial-ground in 1849. It is an upright piece of old red sandstone, rectangular in shape and measuring 0.73 m x 0.48 m x 0.05 m, sculptured in low relief on both sides. The front bears a cross ornamented with a key pattern and scrolling, the arms linked by four quadrants, with reptile and snake motifs in the background and a rampant beast and two standing figures in the lower panels. On the reverse is an abstract grouping of various figures and animals in low relief. A double disc is to the left of a hunting scene. The figures below could represent Samson smiting the Philistines with the jaw-bone of an ass and a Mary and child scene. Inchbrayock 2, the fragment of the top of a Class III cross-slab of Old Red Sandstone now in Montrose Museum, was discovered close to the findspot of Inchbrayock 1 whilst a grave was being dug in 1857. The front is decorated with the upper part of a cross with interlace work, flanked in each corner by a bird-human figure, possibly the eagle symbol of St John the Evangelist. The reverse has a hunting scene, a rider on horseback with the remains of a stag figure visible above the break. Inchbrayock 3, a Class III cross-slab, was discovered in the period 1857-1903 and preserved at Criag Manse (NO 704 558). It was the middle section of an upright cross of Old Red Sandstone carved in relief on one face only. The representation is of a hunting scene. At the top of the fragment a beast is pursued by a man on horseback and a hound, and, at the bottom, a man on horseback carrying a spear pursues a stag with a hound in attendance. This stone was lost sometime around 1908, but was photographed circa 1902. Its dimensions were 0.33 m high by 0.3 m wide. Within the graveyard are two recorded Commonwealth War Graves, for Private J. Blacklaws and Trimmer J. M. Paton. The burial ground contains two World War I Commonwealth war graves.

Period Notes
Dedicated in 1243.

B/61407, B/61407 (Photograph). SAB24034.

B/61408, B/61408 (Photograph). SAB24035.

B/80134/PO, B/80134/PO (Photograph). SAB22669.

B/80135/PO, B/80135/PO (Photograph). SAB22670.

B/80136/PO, B/80136/PO (Photograph). SAB22671.

B/80137/PO, B/80137/PO (Photograph). SAB22672.

B/80138/PO, B/80138/PO (Photograph). SAB23628.

B/80139/PO, B/80139/PO (Photograph). SAB23629.

B/80140/PO, B/80140/PO (Photograph). SAB22682.

B/80141/PO, B/80141/PO (Photograph). SAB22683.

B/80502/PO, B/80502/PO (Photograph). SAB23630.

B/92824/CS, B/92824/CS (Photograph). SAB23633.

D/08567, D/08567 (Photograph). SAB29262.

NSA, 1845, [Untitled], Vol.1 (Forfar), 245 (Bibliographic reference). SAB6322.

Chalmers, P, 1848, [Untitled] (Bibliographic reference). SAB6255.

Stuart, J, 1856, 1, 20 (Bibliographic reference). SAB9285.

Stuart, J, 1856, 1, 20 (Bibliographic reference). SAB9286.

Stuart, J, 1867, 2, 2 (Bibliographic reference). SAB9891.

Warden, A J, 1880-5, [Untitled], 137 (Bibliographic reference). SAB10229.

Warden, A J, 1880-5, [Untitled], Vol.3, 137 (Bibliographic reference). SAB10228.

Anderson and Black, J and G, 1888, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 22, 27, No. 225 (Bibliographic reference). SAB7746.

Allen and Anderson, J R and, 1903, [Untitled], 223-4 (Bibliographic reference). SAB4993.

Allen and Anderson, J R and, 1903, [Untitled], 223-4, 254-5 (Bibliographic reference). SAB4982.

Allen and Anderson, J R and, 1903, [Untitled], 254-5 (Bibliographic reference). SAB5102.

MacKinlay, J M, 1914, [Untitled], 205 (Bibliographic reference). SAB6410.

Cowan, I B, 1967, Scot Rec Soc 93, 85 (Bibliographic reference). SAB11676.

Angus-Butterworth, L M, 1967, Trans Anc Mons Soc New Ser 14, 47-51 (Bibliographic reference). SAB9048.

Macdonald and Laing, A D S an, 1973, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 102, 139-40, no. 5 (Bibliographic reference). SAB4977.

RCAHMS, 1978, [Untitled], 27, no. 225 (Bibliographic reference). SAB7932.

RCAHMS, 1978, [Untitled], 27, No.225 (Bibliographic reference). SAB7955.

Jackson, A, 1984, [Untitled] (Bibliographic reference). SAB11911.

RCAHMS, 1985, [Untitled] (Bibliographic reference). SAB9503.

Ritchie, J N G, 1985, [Untitled], 16 (Bibliographic reference). SAB9307.

Mack, A, 1997, [Untitled], 144 (Bibliographic reference). SAB11557.

RCAHMS, 2003, EARLY MEDIEVAL SCULPTURE IN ANGUS COUNCIL MUSEUMS (Bibliographic reference). SAB1613.

FRASER, I, 2008, THE PICTISH SYMBOL STONES OF SCOTLAND, 56-57 (Bibliographic reference). SAB2523.

WHITE, H, 2012, MONTROSE BASIN SURVEY 1999-2012 (Bibliographic reference). SAB2127.

Name Book (County), n.d., [Untitled], Book No.16, 23-4 (Bibliographic reference). SAB6056.

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