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Dallas, Market Cross
Market Cross (16th Century)
Site Name Dallas, Market Cross
Classification Market Cross (16th Century)
Alternative Name(s) St Michael's Cross
Canmore ID 16104
Site Number NJ15SW 2
NGR NJ 12180 51830
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16104
- Council Moray
- Parish Dallas
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
NJ15SW 2 1218 5183
See also NJ15SW 4.
(NJ 1218 5183) Market Cross (NR)
OS 6" map, Morayshire, 2nd ed., (1906)
The Market Cross, or St Michael's Cross, is one of the very old, if not one of the oldest examples of a market cross.
What remains of the head shows it to have been a very fine piece of workmanship. The moulded band at the neck and the slender, octagonal shaft are Gothic in character. The base, a stone two feet square and 1'6" high with rounded corners, rests on a lower slab or step. Mackintosh says the cross is thought to have been erected early in the 16th century.
J W Small 1900; H B Mackintosh 1924.
The Market Cross, because of its situation in the churchyard known locally as St Michael's Cross, is as described above.
Visited by OS (R D) 9 August 1965.
NJ 121 518 The laying of a water main along the road verge adjoining the front (southern) edge of the graveyard was monitored. St Michael's Church dates to 1793, but stands on a medieval site and the churchyard contains a Scheduled market cross, claimed by some to be one of the oldest in Scotland (NJ15SW 2).
The trench revealed clean and undisturbed sandy silts, apart from one location opposite the entrance to the side access to the church, where there was a man-hole and associated drains, and indications of a wide, almost certainly natural depression, containing a fill of rounded cobbles below layered silts. This was interpreted as a former pond or similar.
Sponsor: Halcrow plc.
J Wood 2004
