We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 57.6911 / 57°41'27"N
Longitude: -2.8195 / 2°49'10"W
OS Eastings: 351239
OS Northings: 867102
OS Grid: NJ512671
Mapcode National: GBR M8DD.937
Mapcode Global: WH7KD.NYK9
Plus Code: 9C9VM5RJ+C5
Entry Name: Mercat Cross, The Square, Cullen
Listing Name: The Square, Burgh Cross
Listing Date: 22 February 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 359601
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB23779
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Cullen, The Square, Mercat Cross
ID on this website: 200359601
Location: Cullen
County: Moray
Town: Cullen
Electoral Ward: Keith and Cullen
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Market cross
1675, completed 1695. Originally sited near Old Cullen
church; removed to Castle Hill circa 1820 (probably
remodelled and supervised by William Robertson); removed
from Castle Hill to present site and re-erected, 1872, John
Miller, architect.
Octagonal polished ashlar (Moray sandstone) buttressed,
crocketted pinnacled base surmounted by slender octagonal
shaft with finialled apex. N face has re-set (probably
medieval) cartouche depicting Virgin and Child. Repaired
circa 1985.
A contract of 9 December 1674 was entered into with Daniell
Ross, master mason in Cullen, whereby Ross was 'to build and
erect ane crosse of frie stone ... near unto (similar to)
the cross of Banff wt. out (without) King or tounes armes
only tuo (two) housings for erecting the same heirefter'. In
1795 a further contract was agreed between the council and
Lachlan M'Petter, a 'masone in Cullen' for the 'building,
finishing and perfytting the cross of the said burgh' and
this work appears to have been completed by May 1696. The
cross was removed from its site by the church in Old Cullen
about 1820 and placed on Castle Hill; this work was probably
supervised by William Robertson who may have designed (at
least in part) the crocketted facetted base. The King's and
'toune' arms are still on Castle Hill, set in a rough circle
of large boulders.
By 1870 the Burgh Council was agitating for the removal of
the cross to the centre of the town and it was agreed in 1872
that this should be done; it was to be placed in the Square
'on a pedestal that will not disgrace his Lordship nor the
Burgh'. This work was designed and supervised by John Miller,
architect to the Seafield Estates whose name, with that of
the builders G Legge and D Gray, are inscribed within one
arch.
It must have been wither in 1820 or more probably in 1872
that the medieval cartouche of Virgin and Child was re-set in
the N facet of the pedestal. The provenance of this cartouche
is not known but it may well have been discovered in or near
Old Cullen Church and placed in the base of the cross for
safe keeping.
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
