Ryeleahead
Chapel (Medieval)
Site Name Ryeleahead
Classification Chapel (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Chapel Knowe; Muir Burn
Canmore ID 67885
Site Number NY48SE 11
NGR NY 45175 81301
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67885
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Canonbie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY48SE 11 4518 8130.
(NY 4517 8130) Chapel (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map (1957)
A chapel is said (OSA 1795) to have stood at Chapel Knowe. Only its foundations remained in 1858.
Orig Paroch Scot 1851; Name Book 1858
NY 4518 8130. The remains of a chapel situated on level ground within a bend in the Muir Burn. Measuring overall 14.2m E-W by 6.8m, the grassed-over walling, 0.8m wide, survives to a maximum height of 0.6m. There is an entrance gap in the S wall.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (TRG) 3 July 1979.
Field Visit (February 1981)
Ryeleahead NY 451 813 NY48SE 11
Situated on the E bank of the Muir Burn, 700m WNW of Ryeleahead cottage, there are the stone foundations of a rectangular building of lime-mortar construction measuring 12.4m from E to W by 5.1m transversely within walls 0.7m thick. Across the doorway, placed just W of the mid-point of the S side, there is a dressed threshold wrought with a broad chamfer. This is probably the former chapel, noted at 'Chapel-knowe, on the borders of Canonby' in the Statistical Account.
RCAHMS 1981, visited February 1981
(Stat. Acct., xvi, 1795, 71; OS 6-inch map, Dumfriesshire, 1sted., 1862, sheet li)
Field Visit (29 February 1996)
The remains of this chapel measure 12.3m from E to W by 5.1m transversely within a wall of mortared dressed masonry 0.8m thick and up to 0.9m high. The entrance, on the S, has a chamfered door-surround and the sandstone threshold also has an external chamfer.
(LID96 161)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 29 February 1996
Note (1997)
NY48SE 11 4518 8130.
Ryeleahead, Chapel Knowe. Listed as chapel.
RCAHMS 1997.
