Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671898

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NK05NE 2 08507 57530

(NK 0850 5752) St Mary's Chapel (NR)

OS 6" map, (1959)

The ruins of St Mary's Chapel, measure internally 45ft E-W by 18ft 9in N-S with walls 3ft thick. The gables are nearly entire and a considerable portion of the side walls remain (MacGibbon and Ross 1896-7). The earliest notice of the chapel is between 1214 and 1233, when, according to the New Statistical Account (NSA, 1845), it was a pirvate chapel of the nearby castle (NK05NE 4). Milne (1901) suggests that the style of the arch of the E window is late 12th century (Milne 1901).

NSA 1845; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1896-7; J Milne 1901.

St Mary's Chapel is generally as described. The E gable has three lancet windows.

Visited by OS (RL) 8 January 1968.

Visible on air photograph AAS/93/15/G30/31. Copy held by Grampian Regional Council.

Information from M Greig, Grampian Regional Council, March 1994.