Location
The village Square Stuartfield
Stuartfield, Aberdeenshire
OS Map Reference
NJ 973 459
Description
A combined seat, weather vane and bell mount, set on a cobble stone circle. The main frame in green painted tubular steel supports at its base a circular wooden seat and at its apex a bell surmounted by a weather vane in the shape of a swan.
The concept is from accounts of the (then new) village in 18th century "A bell mounted on a pole at The Square was rung three times a day to regulate the working life of the village".
Related Information
The village of Stuartfield was founded in 1772 by Mr. John Burnett, an ancestor of the present laird. He named it in honour of his maternal grandfather Captain John Stuart who had purchased the estates of Crichie and Dens from Earl Marischal Keith around 1700.
Crichie is still the byname for the village which nestles in the valley formed by four small hills - the Hills of Jock, Scroghill, and the hills of West Crichie and Knock.
In the manner of other 18th century planned villages, Stuartfield was built with four wide streets radiating outwards to the north, south, east and west from a central Square (or village Green).
Era
2000s
Categories
Iconography
- bell
- bird
Photographer
- Stanley Bruce
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