Grotesque Human Mask, Date Stone

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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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