ABSTRACT
Six carved medieval panels have survived from Fetteresso Church. They consist of two foliage panels whose style has close similarities to the work in Aberdeen, made by John Fendour around 1500. The other four scenes in roundels, Saints George and Sebastian, pigs piping and dancing, and the Devil groping a mermaid, are finely carved but more eclectic in style. These derive from Continental prints also made around 1500. Books of Hours, printed by Philippe Pigouchet and Thiehnan Kerver, provide close models for the mermaid and piping pig. An inscription on the pig scene 'Alorgis' provides a link to the social and intellectual world of orgies, as understood by humanist scholars in 16th-century Paris. Historical circumstances link these panels to the priest of Fetteresso, Patrick Panter, who was a known patron of woodcarving, and to the visits and donations of his friend King James IV to nearby Cowie.
