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CROSS (Market) [Aberdeen] Cross
Cross
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Cross
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John Angus Esqr Town Clerk
Alexander Fraser Esqr City Chamberlain
Newell Burnett Esquire Advocate
Stat Account 1843
Fullarton's Gazetteer
Keith & Gibb's Map
075 "An elegant hegagonal structure of Grecian architecture about 18 feet high to the top of the balustrade, In the Centre of it there rises an elegant Column about 12 feet 6 inches high ornamented with a wreath of thistles around it having a Corinthian Capital surmounted by a Unicorn bearing on its breast a shield with a Lion rampant, the extreme breadth of each side of the fabric from angle to angle is 10 feet and on each side of the six angles is placed a Column the Centre of which is on the extremity of the side. The diameter of the building from the outside of on [one] Column to that of the other on the opposite side is 21 feet. The Columns are of the Ionic order 9 feet high and their Capitals executed in the ancient style, on each side of these Columns are pilasters formed by a small recess in the wall 7½ inches broad and 5 feet high including their impost mouldings over these are arches being segments of Circles with architrave mouldings. The entablature above is formed of 12 sides, each of the angles of which rests on the top of the Column, the other on the middle of the side below, and their weighty projections are supported by trusses. The architrave frieze and Cornice are 2 feet high, and the frieze is richly ornamented with foliage, but not swelled as is common in the Ionic order In the frieze over each of the Columns is the head of an animal, projecting, for the purpose of carrying off the rain water from the top of the building. Over the Cornice is placed a balustrade or close panelling divided into 12 Compartments, each having a handsome moulding, in the one fronting the west, are placed the arms of the town of Aberdeen finely Cut in stone and in the 5 following, on the south are disposed in their order, quarter length effigies of James I. II. III. IV. and V. Kings of Scotland, in the Compartments fronting the east, the royal arms of Scotland are placed, and in the 5 remaining ones are also disposed in order, quarter lengths of Queen Mary. James VI. Charles I. II. and James VII. the four last being Kings of Great Britain, all these effigies are cut [in] high releive, in stone and each has an oval wreath as a frame. The Countenances of the latter Sovereigns are said to bear a strong resemblance to the best pictures of them which are still [--], and a family likeness may be traced through the whole. It was erected by John Montgomery Mason of Old Rain in the Year 1686 in place of the ancient Cross."
(Abridged from Kennedys Annals of Aberdeen.)

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