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Fairlie Description of stone
Event ID 1084070
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084070
Fairlie, Ayrshire, carved stone
Measurements: L 1.30m, H 0.38m
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NS 2098 5559
Evidence for discovery: seen re-used as a fireplace lintel in Chapel House, which was demolished in 1845. It was taken to the garden of the Fairlie Free Church manse in 1949. By 1956 it was at St Margaret’s Church, Fairlie, and around 1968 it was transferred to St Paul’s Church and built into the vestibule wall.
Present location: St Paul’s Church, Fairlie.
Present condition: only the carved face is visible, which is worn.
Description:
This appears to have been a recumbent monument cut down for re-use as a fireplace lintel. The visible face is carved in relief with a horizontal frontal human figure, a quadruped in profile with open jaws and another animal in profile with its head turned back to bite its own tail. Beneath all three is a double moulding above a wide plain border.
Date: ninth or tenth century.
References: PSAS 28 (1893-4), 234-6; ECMS pt 3, 475.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019
