Field Visit
Date May 1977
Event ID 1168049
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1168049
NR 377 957. The remains of this chapel and its associated enclosure occupy a site on the N side of the highway at Upper Kilchattan, about 90m ENE of the Baptist Chapel and about 1.6 km NE of the medieval parish church (NR39NE 7; RCAHMS 1984, No. 364). The site was evidently dedicated to St Mary.
The chapel is an oblong round-angled structure measuring internally about 7m from E to W by 4m. The walls, which survive to an average height of 0.7m, are over 1m in thickness and are of drystone rubble construction; the location of the entrance is not clearly defined. A large recumbent slab is laid in the position of an altar at the E end of the interior.
The building stands within an approximately D-shaped enclosure which is open-ended to the N and in the E sector forms a scarped platform about 0.7m high. The N and W areas of the enclosure show evidence of ploughing, and there are field-banks and structural remains of indeterminate character immediately to the W. The 'numerous half-buried uninscribed gravestones' mentioned in an earlier account' appear to be merely natural surface boulders.
RCAHMS 1984, visited May 1977.
