Architecture Notes

Event ID 665499

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS REFERENCE:

Aberdeen, Castle Street, Mercat Cross.

1686. Hexagonal. Built in Freestone. (designed and built by John Montgomery, a master mason from Rayne in Aberdeenshire. Removed to its present position in 1842.)

NBR: M&R.Dom.Arch.,Vol.V,212,562.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Infromation available in Aberdeen Public Library, Reference Section.

Fraser, G.M. The Market Cross of Aberdeen. 1908.

In Aberdeen in Bygone days.

In Aberdeen fifty years ago.

In Robbie's Aberdeen.

In Munro's Old Landmarks of Aberdeen. 1886.

Transactions of Aberdeen Philosophical Society. Vol IV, p.146.

Plans: Aberdeen Public Library, Reference Department.

The Market Cross on its removal to its present site, 1842. Lithograph by John Henderson from drawing by John Smith, City Architect.

Slides - Market Cross, 1812; Market Cross as Post Office 1821; Market Cross; Market Cross decorated; Medical Hall and Market Cross.

Ministry of Works Library:

Country Life, August 19th, 1965.

Non-Guardianship Sites Plan Collection DC23014-DC23020.