Market Cross, High Street, Stonehaven is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972. Market cross. 1 related planning application.
Market Cross, High Street, Stonehaven
- WRENN ID
- gilded-render-grove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1972
- Type
- Market cross
- Address
- Market Cross, High Street, Stonehaven, AB39 2JQ
- OS grid reference
- NO 876 855
- Coordinates
- 56.96076, -2.20445
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Market Cross in High Street, Stonehaven, dates back to the mid-17th century and was restored in 1887. It features a plain rectangular stone shaft topped with a late 19th-century stylised cross head. On the west face of the cross head, there is a tooled roundel displaying the Stonehaven coat-of-arms, along with the initials W, E, M, and a scroll that includes the inscription 'Veritas Vincit'. The rear of the cross head is inscribed with 'Restored by Mrs Baillie Knowles 1887'.
Local climate
Market Cross, High Street, Stonehaven receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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