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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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PITREAVIE VAULT | Pitreavie Vault Pitreavie Vault Pitreavie Vault |
Rev [Reverend] P. Chalmers Mr Kilgour Inscription on Monument |
035 | [Situation] On the S. [South] side of the Nave of the Abbey church On the south side of the Nave of the Abbey Old church, between three of the eastern buttresses is the burying vault of the Pitreavie family granted by Queen Anne of Denmark to Sir Henry Wardlaw Knight, and his descendants, Over the entrance is a Latin inscription, above which are the Wardlaw Arms on a shield, with "memento Mori" and below it are the words "Ultima Domus" |
BEEALLEY GARDEN | Bee-alley Garden Bee-alley Garden Bee-alley Garden Bee-alley Garden |
Mr Matheson (High Street) Mr Matheson (Factor & occupier) Chalmers Hist [History] of Dunfermline James Hunt Esq |
035 | [Situation] S [South] of the New Burying Ground A good vegetable garden adjoining the south eastern walls of the Abbey how it obtained the name cannot be well ascertained, It is supposed to have been the private Garden of the Abbots, occupier Mr Matheson & property of James Hunt Esq |
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For situation see Town Plan - http://maps.nls.uk/view/74415326Transcribers who have contributed to this page.
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