The effigy of a knight and lady lie in an arched tomb on the north side of the choir of Culross Abbey. The knight has lost his head, hands and legs, the surviving trunk has evidently not been weathered and preserves much fine detail. His arms are clad in plate armour: his body armour is concealed by a tight-fitting heraldic jupon, displaying the fesse-chequey of the Stewarts, quartered with the galley of Lorne. His sword hangs from a heavy baldric, ornamented with rectangular plates, which encircles his hips. A mail aventail, which would have atached to his, now missing, helmet, covers his shoulders and upper arms. The effigy is usually identified as that of John Stewart, variously said to have died c.1445, or been killed in 1463. However, the armour would suggest an earlier date, and that he is this man’s grandfather, the Sir John Stewart who married Isobel, daughter of John de Ergadia, and who died in 1421. Photogrammetry software 3DF Zephyr v6.010 processing 206 images
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