Field Visit
Date June 1982
Event ID 1146125
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1146125
St Mary's Chapel HY 4430 2629 HY42NW 4
This chapel, which stands at the foot of the hill occupied by Cubbie Row's Castle, has also been called Peter's Kirk; but the Marian dedication was accepted by Archdeacon Craiven and subsequently recorded by RCAHMS in 1929 from a good local source. It is a neat building, close in style and design to the chapel at Lybster, Caithness, and dating from the middle or second half of the twelfth century; the nave has a round-arched W door and a round arch into the square-ended chancel. Ruinous by 1791, it was cleared and partly rebuilt in the late nineteenth century at the instigation of General Burroughs; now in guardianship, and in good order.
RCAHMS 1982, visited June 1982
('Jo Ben', sixteenth century, in Barry 1805, 438; Stat. Acct., vii, 1793, 337, also 1978, 198; Anderson 1873, pp. xcvi-xcvii; Anderson 1881, 60-1; Tudor 1883, 345; Muir 1885, 67 and 114; MacGibbon and Ross 1896-7, i, 113-16; Craven 1901, 74-7; Dietrichson 1906, 122-3 (Norwegian text), 33 (separately paginated English text, summary); RCAHMS 1946, ii, pp. 234-5. No. 618; Radford 1962, 186-7; OR 795)
