What is recorded here

Breakage has stripped the tomb of its owner and half its symbols, leaving only a fractured limestone chest in the nave of St Mary's, Callan. What remains is a gallery of suffering: thorns around a cross, a sword, ropes on a pillar, dice and a seamless garment. The dead are gone, but the tomb still lays out the parts of Christ's flesh and the chances cast at it.

Noted in the nave of St Mary's medieval parish church, Callan (KK026-010012-) in 1992 (Farrelly et al. 1992, Unpublished report). A photograph shows a fractured limestone slab, the front panel of a chest tomb. The dexter end of the panel is broken off. The remaining slab is broken vertically down the centre with a further break running across the centre of the dexter side and other cracks running upwards on the dexter side from the central crack. There is a circular depression on the upper sinister side of the panel. There is a plain border along the top and bottom. The panel is decorated in raised relief with symbols of the Passion. This include, from the dexter to the sinister side, a Greek cross encircled by a crown of thorns, St Peters sword with ear depicted on the blade, a pincers, a scourging pillar entwined with ropes and a bunch of birch twigs. A fluted column with a ringed-cross depicted on the column base, separates the remaining symbols which include a cock on a pot with a scourge on either side and below this a seamless garment with a purse to its right and to the left three dice in the form of an 'L'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 December 2019

Chest tomb, medieval period. Its presence within the medieval parish church context indicates local funerary practices and possible ecclesiastical significance.

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