Standing Building Recording
Date 1 February 2016 - 31 March 2016
Event ID 1020221
Category Recording
Type Standing Building Recording
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1020221
NT 2515 7350 A standing building survey was undertaken, 1 February – 31 March 2016. The chapel is now associated with St Margaret who died in 1093 but it was initially dedicated to St Michael, during the reign of David I (1124–53). The chapel was ultimately converted for use as a gunpowder store in the 17th century and the late-medieval chapel which adjoined the E end of St Margaret’s Chapel continued as the garrison chapel until the late 18th century. This in turn was replaced by a new chapel which lasted to the later 19th century. Queen Margaret’s Chapel was heavily restored from the early 1850s in order to create the Romanesque style of chapel which exists today. The recording programme revealed evidence of all these building phases and significantly did confirm that the 12th-century chancel arch and associated arch were inserted within an existing structure, but whether the latter is contemporary with the 11th-century Queen Margaret is not known at present.
Archive: NRHE (intended)
Funder: Historic Environment Scotland
David Murray – Kirkdale Archaeology
(Source: DES, Volume 17)