Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665495

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ13SE 1 1782 3030 and 1780 3033.

(NJ 1782 3030) Chapel (NR). (Remains of).

Chapel Well (NR).

OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1905)

Foundations of a chapel and traces of graves, at Chapelton of Kilnmaichlie. Adjoining is a spring called Chapel Well.

New Statistical Account (NSA, written by Rev W Asher) 1845; Name Book 1869.

The grass-covered foundations of a building were located in a coppice close by a stream. The footings, which protrude through a grassy bank, 3.0m wide and 0.6m high, give a measurement for the building of c.11.5m x 4.0m, with orientation NE/SW. At the NE side, there are vague traces of a grass-covered wall, which may have been the remains of an annexe or part of a graveyard wall. No trace of gravestones was found in the vicinity of the building. Some 30.0m NW of the building there is a well, partly covered and enclosed by rough masonry, which itself is 7.0m NW of the point where the natural spring issues. Nothing is known locally concerning the dedication of the chapel.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (R B) 31 August 1966.

INVENTORY OF GRAVEYARD AND CEMETERY SITES IN SCOTLAND REFERENCE:

Address: Chapelton of Kilnmaichlie

Postcode: AB37 9AL

Status: Abandoned

Size: Unknown

Polygon: No

TOIDs: 1000000172459260 (site)

Number of gravestones: Not known

Earliest gravestone: Not known

Most recent gravestone: Not known

Description: Graveyard associated with a chapel. No traces remain.

Data Sources: OS MasterMap checked 22 June 2005