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Chapel of Garioch stained glass
Window Chapel of Garioch

Chancel, window on theme of Sacrifice and Service; donated by Women's Guild, 1931. Shows the crucifixion with virgin and child above flanked by 2 Saints on either side. With smaller panels showing illustrations of biblical stories relevant to the theme. Text reads :"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS CHURCH WHO LOVING THEIR LORD SERVED HIM IN LIFE AND DEATH."

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Chapel of Garioch war memorial
Chapel of Garioch War Memorial, detail

The Chapel of Garioch war memorial stands in the churchyard of the parish church. It commemorates the dead of both World War I & II. It is in the form of a Celtic crosshead of rough hewn granite in the centre of which is a carved wreath. The inscription and names for World War I are on the front of the memorial on a dressed surface. The base is formed of rough dressed boulders into the top of which is set a small block to commemorate the dead of World War II.

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Maiden Stone, Drumdurno
East face rubbing

Class II relief carved pink granite Pictish Symbol Stone, 3 metres 20 cm x 86 cm x 25cm. The symbols being the notched rectangle and Z rod and the Pictish Beast (A.K.A. elephant, dolphin) with a mirror and comb qualifier. East face has 4 panels. The top one has various beasts and a Pict headed centaur, The second panel the notched rectangle and Z rod, the third the Pictish Beast and the bottom panel the mirror and comb.
The west cross face is very worn it shows a man with arms outstretched between two kelpie type monsters above a ring cross which in turn is above a disc the inner part of which is decorated with an intricate design of spirals (similar to designs in The Book of Kells) with a border of knotwork. The narrow sides are also decorated with intricate interwoven patterns.
I include 2 photographs of rubbings on cotton that are in Chapel of Garioch Parish Church, done by the artist Marianna Lines some decades ago and now rather faded themselves (taking rubbings of actual Pictish monuments is against present regulations).

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Persephone
Persephone datestone

Sculpted millstone grit figure of Persephone, the goddess of the underworld in Greek mythology (abducted by Hades and having to remain with him half of every year because she ate six pomegranate seeds the pomegranate can be seen in the statue's right hand), she is holding a mirror similar to that on the nearby Maiden Stone.

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