Aberdeen, Wallace Statue and Market Cross
Posted in Aberdeen, Sculpture at 20:30 on 27 August 2020
Statue of William Wallace in Aberdeen. This stands near Union Terrace Gardens. It is inscribed, “Willam Wallace, Guardian of Scotland” and in addition, I tell you a truth, liberty is the best of all things, my son, never live under any slavish bond, and was paid for with funds left for the purpose by John Steill of 38 Grange Road in Edinburgh, the son of James Steill sometime of Easter Baldowrie in Angus:-
Aberdeen’s Old Market Cross dates from 1686:-