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Latitude: 57.6683 / 57°40'5"N
Longitude: -2.5024 / 2°30'8"W
OS Eastings: 370128
OS Northings: 864381
OS Grid: NJ701643
Mapcode National: GBR N85G.BB4
Mapcode Global: WH8LW.JJL7
Plus Code: 9C9VMF9X+82
Entry Name: Market Cross, Church Street, Macduff
Listing Name: Church Street, Burgh Cross
Listing Date: 22 February 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 382753
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37617
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200382753
Location: Macduff
County: Aberdeenshire
Town: Macduff
Electoral Ward: Troup
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Market cross
Dated 1783 when earlier fragments reconstituted in present
form. Granite cross incorporating small carved plaque at apex
and inscribed narrow slabs as arms mounted on square tooled
granite plinth. Large inscribed slate plaques mounted in N
and S face faces of plinth which has stepped and harled base.
Cross and plinth mounted on circular crenellated platform
approached by flight of steps.
Carving on apex of cross depicts figure on horseback below
coronet.
Plaque on S face of plinth inscribed 'Macduff Cross rebuilt
Macduff by the Earl of Fife 1783 when that place was
constituted a Royal Burgh by Geo IIId' (and in oval recess)'
MAY IT FLOURISH and long increase in NUMBERS and Opulence'.
Plaque in N face inscribed 'WHILE its INHABITANTS GAINS (SIC)
THE BLESSING OF LIFE BY INDUSTRY DILIGENCE AND TEMPORANCE'.
Commanding site overlooking Macduff. Plaque on viewpoint
records the bi-centenary of Macduff in 1983 when the area
appears to have been laid out in present form with steps to
platform surrounding cross.
Macduff, was formally established by the Earl of Fife in
1732, though there has been a small fishing hamlet on site
before that time. In its early days it was called Down or
Doune but the name was changed to Macduff when constituted a
burgh in 1783.
Original date of the cross fragments not known.
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