Fyvie 1

Fyvie 1

Location

Fyvie Church
Fyvie, Turriff, Aberdeenshire

OS Map Reference

NJ 769 378

Date

6th-8th cent.?.

Description

Fyvie Parish Church is at the east end of Fyvie, on the south side of the B9005. Set in the east wall of the church are three worn Pictish class I symbol stones, all have been trimmed.

Fyvie 1 was once built into the wall of the schoolhouse. On it is the 'elephant' or 'Pictish Beast' symbol, the bottom part of a 'crescent and V rod' and most of a 'mirror' symbol.

Fyvie Church also contains important stained glass by L. C. Tiffany. South-east of the church in a railed enclosure, marked by an obelisk is the old tombstone of "Mill of Tifty's Annie" (1673), subject of the eponymous ballad.

Era

Dark ages

Categories

Iconography

  • pictish symbols

Photographer

  • David Watson Hood

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