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Publication Account
Date 1995
Event ID 1016740
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1016740
The cross-slab is near the entrance gate, in the fourth row of graves. It is carved in high relief on both sides. On the east side is a cross set on a curved frame, and within the frame a rider on a horse: he is apparently unarmed, and sits on what may be a saddle cloth. Below him are two incised figures on horseback, partly hidden in the ground they carry round shields and spears and are also armed with swords. On the other side of the slab is a large ringed cross on a tall stem, with low bosses in the angles of its arms. There ale no Pictish symbols on this stone, but the riders are similar to those on stones with symbols, such as Shandwick (no. 68), and must be close in date to them.
The white-harled T-plan church built in 1743 was originally the parish church, but became the Free Church when a new parish church was built in Edderton in 1842. It has three galleries, the two at each end now blocked off, and a 1794 pulpit togeth er with ingenious late 18th-century pews which unhinge and fold down to become long communion tables. Outside at the east end is the remains of an earlier church, and at the west end is a roofless burial aisle built in 1637.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: The Highlands’, (1995).
