Grotesque Human Mask, Date Stone
Location
The Market Arms, High Shore, Banff
Banff, Banffshire
OS Map Reference
NJ 690 640
Date
1585
Description
Category B listed building. The Market Inn is dated 1585 on a painted lunette stone with grotesque moustachioed head - you can see it by going through the pend arch. The building in it's present form could be as late as 18th century but incorporating earlier fabric, but it is certainly the oldest building in continuous occupation in Banff.
Related Information
The image is replicated on the current inn sign shown in lower photograph.
Era
1500s
Categories
Iconography
- human face or head
Photographer
- Dianne Sutherland
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