St Machar’s Cathedral, Aberdeen (iii) Memorials
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 19 July 2025
Great War Memorial, St Machar’s Cathedral:-
Second World War Memorial:-
Boys’ Brigade Memorial:-
Memorial to John Eugene Crombie, Gordon Highlanders, 23/4/1917, died of wounds:-
Memorial to mediaeval poet John Barbour, the father of Scottish literature with his epic poem The Brus, which predates Chaucer. Barbour was an archdeacon in St Machar’s and is buried in the kirk:-
Unfortunately I must have moved the camera when I pressd the shutter here:-
Effigy of Bishop Lintoun:-
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