View from N
SC 793669
Description View from N
Date 1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 793669
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Market Cross, The Cross, Culross, Fife, from north-north-east This view from the north-north-east, taken in 1979, shows the market cross in the centre of the burgh. The shaft and head were added in 1902 to designs by J W Small, the low-relief sculpture being carved by Alexander Neilson. In the background are buildings rehabilitated by The National Trust for Scotland after 1945. The burgh declined from the mid-18th century, but many of its buildings remained intact, if neglected. In 1932 The National Trust for Scotland purchased some of the properties and began a programme of refurbishment, using Ian G Lindsay & Partners as the architects. A market (mercat) cross is a symbol of the status of a place as a burgh, a settlement with the right to hold markets. Culross was made a royal burgh in 1592, and the base of this market cross was built in about 1600, at a time when the town was a centre of the coal mining industry, with an important export trade. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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