ID: NGR-011043-P

Tombstone of Felix, Kamilla and Stanislava Markiewicz

Vilnius | Lithuania
lit. Vilnius

Rossa Cemetery in Vilnius

ID: NGR-011043-P

Tombstone of Felix, Kamilla and Stanislava Markiewicz

Vilnius | Lithuania
lit. Vilnius

A tomb on a rectangular plan covered with a two-storey slab, at the head of which is a chapel on a two-storey base and a two-storey plinth. The chapel with stylised Corinthian columns at the corners, supporting a hipped roof with gables covered by a profiled cornice. The gables are covered by octagonal plinths. The roof is topped with a spherical little bell with a cross on a multi-tier plinth. Cross with arms ending in a trilliform. On the four sides of the chapel, semicircular closed niches with profiled panels on the front and back. The first step of the pedestal with profiled upper edges. To the front and left of it are glazed panels with quarter-circle chamfered corners with a bas-relief inscription (1, 2). The second step of the plinth covered with a moulded wider panel. On the front two uneven panels with quarter-circle chamfered corners. In them relief inscriptions (3, 4). On the left side, a roughly carved panel with quarter-circle chamfered corners with a relief inscription (5). On the slab covering the tomb a cast-iron fence with a double-leaf gate at the front. The fence decorated with openwork doubled circles, fastened with four stylised oak leaves embracing crosses with arms ending in a lily form and with rosettes at the intersection.

Inscription:

1) Pamiątkę od stęsknionych rodzico //.

2) POKÓJ ICH DUSZOM. //.

3) TU SPOCZYWAJA / ZWŁOKI S. P. STASI / MARKIEWICZ. / UCZĘNICY III KLASSY. / PRZESZŁA DO WIECZNOŚCI / W. 15 ROKU ŻYCIA SWEGO / 14 MARCA 1898 R. //.

4) POKÓJ JEJ ZACNEJ DUSZY. //.

5) Ś. P. / FELIKS / MARKIEWICZ / ZM. 2 GRUDNIA 1916 R. / ŻYŁ LAT 72. / ORAZ ŻONA JEGO / KAMILLA / Z SOKOŁOWICZÓW. //.

Time of origin:

1898-1901

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Sector number 16b (Old Rossa) Tomb number 8

Dimensions:

510 x 240 x 270 cm

Additional dimensions:

chapel and cross: 175 x 47 x 41

Materials:

marble, concrete/jewel concrete, cast iron

State of preservation:

corrosion, mosses, lichens

Bibliography:

„Cmentarz na Rossie w Wilnie, badania inwentaryzacyjne”, katalog on-line, opr. Anna Sylwia Czyż i Bartłomiej Gutowski, dostęp on-line http://cmentarznarossie.uksw.edu.pl/.

Keywords:

tomb, shrine

Date of documentation:

2013

Author of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Katarzyna Jachimowicz, Magdalena Oleszak

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, dr hab. Anna Sylwia Czyż, prof. ucz.

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