{"id":268,"date":"2017-03-06T21:37:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T21:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2017-06-21T15:36:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:36:21","slug":"the-mercat-cross","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/dallas-area\/the-mercat-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mercat Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \u2018Scottish Market Crosses\u2019, refers to it as\u00a0 \u201cA 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.\u00a0 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\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The Mercat Cross, Dallas Churchyard<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> 2004<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Alongside is a computer-enhanced reproduction of what the top of the Cross would most probably looked like at one time.\u00a0 The strengthening bands have been left in to make it closer to its current appearance.<\/p>\n

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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 \u2018Scottish Market Crosses\u2019, refers to it as\u00a0 \u201cA very old, if not one of the oldest, examples of a Market Cross and, … Continue reading The Mercat Cross<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6810,"featured_media":0,"parent":262,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/430"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/my\/historyofdallasmoray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}