Murie Cross

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 21/09/2001 Date Removed: 11/02/2025 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Parish Errol NGR NO 23153 22386 Coordinates 323153, 722386 Removal Reason This building does not meet the criteria for listing. — The Murie Cross is a Celtic cross memorial constructed in 1875 and located at the top of Law Knowe, a medieval motte dating to the 12 th century associated with the Hay's of Errol (Law Knowe, motte 380m NNW of Mains of Murie; scheduled monument SM7292). It is composed of a three stepped square sandstone base which originally gave way to battered shaft of sandstone blocks held together with iron pins, with an inset metal panel with incised inscription, topped with a cross, with semi-circular cross 'arms' and a central raised circular boss. The metal panel inscription reads: 'IN MEMORIAM/EVE MAGDALEN BROUN-MORISON/BORN MAY 14TH 1840 DIED AUGUST 14TH 1896/BLEST SPIRIT IN BRIGHT REALMS ABOVE/DEAR OBJECT OF THY FATHER'S LOVE/STILL WATCH AND GUIDE ME BY THY CARE/TILL I AM CALLED TO MEET THEE THERE' 'JOHN BROUN BROUN-MORISON J P D L/17TH LAIRD OF FINDERLIE 1ST OF MURIE/OF THE ROYAL BODY GUARD OF SCOTTISH ARCHERS/BORN 22ND JAN 1840 DIED 24TH SEP 1912' 'MAUD/BORN 1865 DIED 1865' 'MURIEL/BORN 1868 DIED 1875' There are a variety of carved stones fallen or displaced in vicinity including a relief carved heraldic shield dated 1901 and a slab with bishop's mitre at its head and the following incised inscription: "THIS PREHISTORIC BARROW WAS CONSECRATED TO GOD BY THE MOST REVEREND ALEX PENROSE FORBES D C L LORD BISHOP OF BRECHIN IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR MDCCCLXXV". The shaft and cross were toppled by a falling tree in 2017 and now survive as a group of disjointed stone blocks which appear to have remained undisturbed si

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.