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Kilmichael Glassary, Kilmichael Glassary Parish Church, Churchyard, Cross 22

Cross (Medieval)

Site Name Kilmichael Glassary, Kilmichael Glassary Parish Church, Churchyard, Cross 22

Classification Cross (Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Kilmartin; Poltalloch; Bellanoch

Canmore ID 194711

Site Number NR89SE 15.03

NGR NR 8588 9351

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kilmichael Glassary
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Activities

Field Visit (June 1988)

(22) Freestanding disc-headed cross, broken below the cross-head and repaired in the 19th century with heavy metal straps which obscure parts of the ornament. It measures1.91m in visible height by 0.58m in span, the diameter of the disc being 0.55m, and the shaft, which is 120mm thick at base, tapers from 0.35m to 0.29m below the cross-head. Both faces are framed by double mouldings which in the head are intertwined, the inner members projecting in some cases to form the stubby arms. The edges of the shaft bear elongated dogtooth, which is continued as a plain central moulding on the edges of the cross-head. The front bears a worn and crudely-carved figure of the Crucified Saviour, with head inclined to His right and crossed feet. The rood is not represented, and the only other ornament on this face is a short vertical strip of interlaced plant-stems which terminates at least 0.45m above the foot of the shaft. The back of the shaft is occupied by similar plant-stems extending a little lower, and the head is filled by loose irregularly interlaced stems with no foliaceous features.

Drummond relates that this cross was found, re-used as a door-lintel, during the demolition of the old church in 1827, removed by the Poltalloch estate factor to Bellanoch, and eventually repaired with iron clamps. It was brought back to Kilmichael to be set up as the village cross, but was again removed to Poltalloch, where it stands in a modern octagonal base, after the building of the chapel in the early 1850s. (SSS,2, pl.58; Drummond in PSAS 8 (1868-70), 118-19; Steer and Bannerman, Monumental Sculpture, p.55, pl.22C). Loch Awe school, 14th-15th century.

RCAHMS 1992, visited June 1988

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