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Latitude: 55.6521 / 55°39'7"N
Longitude: -3.1886 / 3°11'18"W
OS Eastings: 325305
OS Northings: 640477
OS Grid: NT253404
Mapcode National: GBR 6352.HQ
Mapcode Global: WH6V4.Z6TD
Plus Code: 9C7RMR26+RH
Entry Name: Market Cross, High Street, Peebles
Listing Name: High Street, Mercat Cross
Listing Date: 23 February 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384772
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39183
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Peebles, High Street, Market Cross
ID on this website: 200384772
Location: Peebles
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Peebles
Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West
Traditional County: Peeblesshire
Tagged with: Market cross Architectural structure
Shaft perhaps 15th century; sundial dated 1699; weathervane dated 1662; re-erected 1895; moved and placed on new plinth 1965. Large octagonal sandstone plinth, with steps, supports smaller octagonal pedestal. Octagonal sandstone shaft with small plain shield to alternate faces; richly carved octagonal capital. Facetted cubic sundial with copper gnomons rests on capital, surmounted by copper weathervane with scrolled brackets.
Scheduled Ancient Monument No 2780. The shields bear the arms of the Burgh of Peebles, and the Frasers. The shaft is reputed to date from before 1320; the sundial is dated 1699 and the weathervane 1662. The cross originally stood in the old Market Place and was dismantled in 1807, the shaft and head being preserved in the grounds of Kingsmeadows house; it was resited in the court of the Chambers Institution in 1857, and moved in
1895 to the High Street as a gift of Col William Thorburn of Craigerne. It was moved again in 1965 by Schomberg Scott to allow for traffic.
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