Archaeology Notes

Event ID 676245

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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(NN 1216 0738) St Catherine's Chapel (NR)

(Ruins of) Burial Ground (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)

St Catherine's Chapel, situated on a grassy platform at the edge of a sheer rocky cliff, is reduced to its foundations, which were cleared of turf many years ago by a former Duke of Argyll. Its total length is 45'8", and the breadth 19', over walls 2'8" thick; there has been a cross-wall 2' thick 22'5" from the outer face of the SW end. It was founded in 1450 by Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochow.

The burial ground, which had no particular boundary, was close by the chapel; human bones were found there "a good number of years" before 1870 by workmen quarrying for stones.

Name Book 1870; M Paterson 1970; Information from RCAHMS Manuscript.

The turf-covered footings of the chapel are as described. There is no trace of a burial ground.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (DWR), 1 March 1973.

INVENTORY OF GRAVEYARD AND CEMETERY SITES IN SCOTLAND REFERENCE:

Address: St Catherine's Chapel Burial Ground

Postcode: PA25 8BB

Status: No longer extant

Size: N/a

TOIDs:

Number of gravestones: Not known

Earliest gravestone: Not known

Most recent gravestone: Not known

Description: Burial ground associated with a chapel, neither extant

Data Sources: OS MasterMap checked 21 September 2005