Strowan
Market Cross (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Strowan
Classification Market Cross (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 25513
Site Number NN82SW 2
NGR NN 8192 2119
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Monzievaird And Strowan
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN82SW 2 8192 2119.
(NN 8192 2119) CROSS (NR) On site of Strowan Market Place.
OS 25" map (1901)
In the Market Place at Strowan is a cross inscribed Jesus Nazarenus Rex Judaeorum.
OSA 1793
A cross with the initials INRI in 15th (?) century letters and some more writing below, now illegible. It stands on a natural mound.
OS 6" map annotated by O G S Crawford 28 April 1940.
The cross standing on the site of what is known locally as the former Strowan market place is generally as described by Crawford. The inscription in the Statistical Account [OSA] is not discernible on it and it could not be confirmed locally that the crosses mentioned above are one and the same.
Visited by OS (EGC) 25 November 1966