Fettercairn, The Square, Market Cross
Market Cross (17th Century), Sundial (17th Century)(Possible)
Site Name Fettercairn, The Square, Market Cross
Classification Market Cross (17th Century), Sundial (17th Century)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Cross Of The Mearns; Mercat Cross
Canmore ID 36123
Site Number NO67SE 8
NGR NO 65052 73544
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36123
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fettercairn
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO67SE 8 65052 73544
(NO 6504 7355) Cross (NAT).
OS 25" map, (1927)
Fettercairn Market Cross stands on a 5-stepped pedestal. The square shaft is capped by a capital featuring a series of sundials, the initials "EIM" and the date "1670". The popular belief is that this was the old market cross of the town of Kincardine (NO67SE 9), and that it was removed to Fettercairn in 1730, but of this no record exists. Fettercairn was granted a licence to hold markets and erect a cross in 1504, and this was renewed in a grant to the Earl of Middleton in 1670. The probability is that the capital bearing the date 1670 was made for Fettercairn and that the shaft which looks much older, is that of the 1504 cross.
J W Small 1900; A C Cameron 1899.
Market Cross, as described.
See Illustration Card.
Visited by OS (R L) 18 August 1971.
Field Visit (October 1981)
Fettercairn, Burgh and Market Cross NO 650 735 NO67SE 8
Fettercairn was erected a burgh of barony in 1504. A market cross standing in the village square is said to have been brought to Fettercairn in 1730 from the burgh of Kincardine (NO67SE 5); the head of the cross, however, which bears the date 1670 and appears to be later than the shaft, was probably made for Fettercairn.
RCAHMS 1982, visited October 1981
(NSA, xi, Kincardine, 116-17; Cameron 1899, 144-5; Small 1900, Plate 38; Pryde 1965, 55, no. 179)
