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Dysart, The Man In The Rock
Commemorative Monument (Mid 19th Century) (1851), Sculpture (Mid 19th Century) (1851)
Site Name Dysart, The Man In The Rock
Classification Commemorative Monument (Mid 19th Century) (1851), Sculpture (Mid 19th Century) (1851)
Alternative Name(s) Bonivard The Prisoner; The Prisoner Of Chillon
Canmore ID 92368
Site Number NT39SW 58
NGR NT 3145 9400
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/92368
- Council Fife
- Parish Kirkcaldy And Dysart
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
Note (3 June 1997)
This location has been deduced from reference made on the ordnance survey maps 1:10000 and 1:2500 to 'Sculpture (Prisoner of Chillon)' at Blair Point. No literary reference for 'The Man in the Rock' was found at the time of upgrade (3.6.1997). However a reference which appears to unite by description 'The Man in the Rock' with the 'Prisoner of Chillon' is found in 'The Fife Coast from Queensferry to Fifeness', also titled 'The Handy-Book of the Fife Coast', by Henry Farnie (see Bibliography):
'You would not expect a sculpture at the Red Rocks? But there is one, chiselled in low relief out of the red stone. It was the first essay in art of a young weaver named John Paterson, in the year of grace 1851. He used to trudge out, of the long summer nights after the weary loom was at rest, and blocked out his conception of Bonivard the prisoner,
"In Chillon's dungeon deep and old."
...The relief has been surrounded very properly by an iron railing.'
Information from RCAHMS (PC) 3 June 1997
H Farnie 1861
External Reference (11 May 2015)
The sculpture of the Man in the Rock at Dysart was destroyed in 1970 due to erosion of the cliff base by the pounding of the sea.
Information from Helen Ramsay, 11 May 2015
