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Temple Description of stone
Event ID 1017599
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017599
Temple, Urquhart, Inverness-shire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.38m, W 0.27m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NH 5295 3004
Present location: set into the altar frontal in the modern St Ninian’s Chapel at Temple.
Evidence for discovery: found on the site of the early church of St Ninian on the north side of Urquhart Bay and taken to Corrimony House, where it was mounted within a stone panel on the exterior wall of the house sometime before 1943 when it was photographed by RCAHMS. The house burnt down in 1951, and the panel was taken back to Temple to the modern St Ninian’s Chapel.
Present condition: some damage to the base of the slab, which has removed the tip of the shaft, but otherwise the carving is in good condition.
Description
This small slab is incised with an outline cross, the shaft of which tapers at the base. There are small hollowed armpits.
Date: seventh or eighth century.
References:
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
