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Fordyce Millennium Sculpture (Fordyce, Fuar Deas, The Cold South)
Fordyce Millennium Sculpture (Fordyce, Fuar Deas, The Cold South)

A sculpture based on a leaf and branch motif in welded metal surrounded by a bench with an inscription "Fordyce, Fuar Deas, The Cold South". The wooden seat has been replaced in metal by the original artist as it did not stand the exposure to the weather.

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Fordyce Primary School Murals
Primary School mural right

Brightly coloured naive paintings of the local landscape with rampant flora and fauna (some of the butterfly species are a bit optimistic).

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Ogilvie Tomb, Fordyce
Ogilvie Tomb

Magnificantly carved ogee-arched altar tomb of the Ogilvies of Findlater.
Remains of church; dates from before 1272; ruinous Medieval church; all that remains now is the roofed bell-tower in a fair state of preservation; the obvious later steps to the first floor on the E side of the tower bears an inscription and the date 1721. The old church consisted of a nave with aisles on the W & S; the former aisle belonged to the Ogilvies of Durn, and the latter, now divided into two, belonged one to Birkenbog and the other to Findlater & Boyne. W portion contains mural wall tomb of Ogilvy of Findlater; E portion a mural tomb of a recumbent effigy in armour c1509. A Post-Reformation tower stands with a richly carved double-arched bellcote dated 1661; the Abercrombie of Glassaugh burial aisle is late 17thC with small apex bellcote; burial ground has an interesting range of tomb stones. Church replaced in 1804 by present parish church.

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