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Fife, Culross. View of Market Cross from Tanhouse Brae, from the North East.

SC 368252

Description Fife, Culross. View of Market Cross from Tanhouse Brae, from the North East.

Date 1930

Collection H D Wyllie

Catalogue Number SC 368252

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 2943

Scope and Content View from Tanhouse Brae of Mercat Cross, The Cross, Culross, Fife Culross Mercat Cross was set up in 1902 on a base from about 1600. The coats-of-arms on the top belong to: James VI, the burgh's founder; Sir James Sivewright, who paid for the cross; and Provost Cunningham. The unicorn is based on one at Stirling. This is the view down Tanhouse Brae into the triangular space known as 'The Cross'. The crow-stepped building immediately to the right of the cross dates from 1577. Near-right, with the forestair, is a building of about 1700. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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Attribution: © Courtesy of HES. Photographs by H D Wyllie, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland

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