hi guys welcome to another dead good walk
today we're at the polwarth kirk in polwarth in the scottish borders
now there are some really cool 18th century headstones here but i've mainly come to see the
four coffins you can see through the window around the back in the crypt
let's take a walk around and see if we can find them
so it's thought the church was founded in about 900 a.d but the first records of the
church were from 1242 a.d so it's a little bit vague before then as to what was here at the time
so as well as the coffins in the crypt there's a little story about a chat called sir patrick
hume now he was involved in the right house plot which was a plot to try and assassinate
uh king charles ii and he actually hid in the crypts for four weeks to escape detection
and his daughter would bring him food and drink while he was there
i'll try and read that for you while you're looking in the crypt
so in here from left to right we have the right honourable alexander hume campbell esquire
and he was 52 when he died in london in 1970 next countess of the marchman i think it is
38 years died in 1747. on the far right-hand side the honourable alexander lord paul with
lord human barrick age 30 when he died in 1781
and sir william pervis human campbell baronet aged 67 when he died in 1833
so you can see there the coughing lids have moved slightly but you can kind of see it as
well but i think there's another coughing side there's a lead coughing inside each one as well
probably to stop diseases like cholera and things like that
that's a nice one i like the rope detail around the edges
a little cherry blue wings there maybe if it's blowing over underneath
this one's got a crown on the top i'm not sure what's in the middle maybe
a cherub there's a hammer there to the left-hand side
another chair up there but the writing's all gone from it's all weather too far too much
that's unusual
that's got to be the favorite from the day that one look at that
well maybe that's my favorite one from the day
hmm
so
just have a quick nosy in here before we go
can't really read that one see if we see anything inside again
so
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