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12th July 1910.
Wrote up notes & packed in the fore:
:noon. After lunch bicycled to Wick & at
last got access to the Sinclair aisle. This
is an uninteresting fragment of the old
church of St. Mary's with unseemly modern
crenelations along the wall heads. Within
lies the recumbent effigy of an eccelesiastic, long
known in Wick as a statue of St. Fergus
the Patron Saint who after reposing in
the town jail and subsequently doing duty as a
statue in a garden plot by the Town Buildings
has finally here found a resting place.
Mr. Eccles has fully described the figure to
the Soc. of Antiq. [Society of Antiquaries]. It appears to be robed in
a long cassock with a stole at his neck.
The hands folded on the breast hold a
jeweled cross. The face has been
redressed. The feet rest on a couchant or dormant
lion. The extreme length of the effigy is 5'.1" .
Against the ?E. [East] wall is placed erect a
memorial slab 5'.9" long x 2'.7" broad
bearing in the centre a heraldic shield
Parted per pale. Dexter half a cross en:
:grailed. Sinister 3 boars heads couped
between initials M.I.S and I.C. Around
& across the slab runs the legend

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