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Latitude: 57.6488 / 57°38'55"N
Longitude: -3.3147 / 3°18'52"W
OS Eastings: 321630
OS Northings: 862860
OS Grid: NJ216628
Mapcode National: GBR L85H.Y1M
Mapcode Global: WH6JF.10VN
Plus Code: 9C9RJMXP+G4
Entry Name: Muckle Cross, Elgin
Listing Name: High Street, Muckle Cross on the Plainstones
Listing Date: 18 June 1982
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371818
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30712
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Elgin, Muckle Cross
ID on this website: 200371818
Location: Elgin
County: Moray
Town: Elgin
Electoral Ward: Elgin City South
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Market cross
Sydney Mitchell, 1888. 12' high hexagonal base raised on
3 steps in the style of that destroyed about 1650.
Ashlar, fluted pilasters at each angle with Ionic capitals
and gargoyles; shell-headed niches with seats to 5 faces
and entrance to platform in 6th; tall parapet with
panelled pilasters and St Giles emblem to E face; 12'
high granite shaft supporting lion rampant with shield.
Present cross replaces that erected during reign of Charles I
and destroyed 1782. Gifted by a native of Elgin, William
McAndrew of Little Horkesley, Essex.
Former Item 27C.
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