Location
The Peterhead war memorials stand beside the old church (St Peter's) on South Road. The World War I memorial is on a site in front of the churchyard.
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
OS Map Reference
NJ 126 460
Date
1922
Description
It is a tall rectangular obilisk with an unusual decorated top. The name plaques are near the base of the sides within egg & dart borders, each surmounted by a wreath. Above the wreath on one face is a cross. The obilisk stands on a slightly splayed base on top of a three-step base. It was unveiled 6 August 1922 and handed over to the Town Council on August 6 1923. The World War II memorial forms the gate piers in to the churchyard. They are squat rectangular pillars with the coats-of-arms of the different services and regiments as well as the names. Inside the churchyard is another memorial to the men buried in the churchyard and three other war graves.
Related Information
Remains of church; consist of side walls and the entire arch of the chancel and a square tower projecting outwards in the centre of the west wall of the nave. The tower and the west wall are late but the chancel arch is Norman. The east wall and the chancel arch are 13thC. The church is on record from 1218 when it was transferred to the Abbey of Deer from Dunkeld Cathedral. Important collection of 17th, 18th & early 19th-century monuments in the churchyard; dykes built in 1816.
Era
1900s
Information Source
Aberdeenshire Sites and Monuments Records
Categories
Iconography
- cross, Roman
- laurel wreath
- scallop shell
Photographer
- Stanley Bruce
Unavailable Data
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