Field Visit
Date 20 August 1908
Event ID 1088381
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088381
76. St Ebba's Chapel, St Abb's Head.
The remains known as St Ebba's Chapel are situated on a rocky promontory, part of St Abb's Head, ¼ mile west-north-west of the lighthouse. Little more than the foundations of the building are now apparent, the highest portion of wall being at the west end, where it is 3 feet high. The internal measurements are-length 69 feet, width 22 feet, thickness of wall about 4 feet. A slight projection at the northeast corner, 9 feet square, may be a chancel or a sacristy. There is a recess in the west wall 6 feet long and 2 feet 6 inches wide, probably for a tomb. The neck of the promontory is traversed by a deep depression or ditch, retaining on the crest of the scarp the remains of a thick mortar built
wall.
See Eccles. Arch., i. p. 437 (plan); Carr's Coldingham, p. 243;
Ber. Nat. Club, 1863-68, p. 207, 1890-91, p. 116.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 20th August 1908.
OS Map: Ber., v. NE. and vi. NW. (‘Nunnery’).
