There is a Cross situated in the churchyard and it is considered by many that this Mercat Cross is the most valuable and interesting relic of antiquity in the parish. Small, in his ‘Scottish Market Crosses’, refers to it as “A very old, if not one of the oldest, examples of a Market Cross and, strange to say, it is situated in the centre of the village churchyard in close proximity to the Parish Church. This cross is very elegant and graceful in its proportion, and what remains of the head shows it to have been a very fine piece of workmanship”.
The Mercat Cross, Dallas Churchyard 2004
In 1954 Moray Council agreed to efforts to preserve the cross through having the cross cleaned, lichen removed, cracks filled with matching synthetic stone and the cross treated with 3 coats of a hardening material.
Alongside is a computer-enhanced reproduction of what the top of the Cross would most probably looked like at one time. The strengthening bands have been left in to make it closer to its current appearance.
