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Latitude: 55.3668 / 55°22'0"N
Longitude: -3.9211 / 3°55'15"W
OS Eastings: 278337
OS Northings: 609773
OS Grid: NS783097
Mapcode National: GBR 161C.WY
Mapcode Global: WH4SW.RC0K
Plus Code: 9C7R938H+PH
Entry Name: Monument, High Street, Sanquhar
Listing Name: High Street, Monument
Listing Date: 21 August 1987
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386489
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40550
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200386489
Location: Sanquhar
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Sanquhar
Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Monument
D J and H Newall of Dalbeattie, sculptors; monument erected
1864 (inscription) on site of old market cross; commemorates
Sanquhar declaration of 1680 and Sanquhar protestation of
1685. Plain obelisk on broader, battered, stepped and
pedimented square base, all raised on bullfaced plinth. White
granite, with inscription panels.
allegiance to King Charles II and declared war on him and on
In 1680 Richard Cameron and his supporters renounced their
his followers; in 1685 the Cameronians protested over the
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