Archaeology Notes

Event ID 677607

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN72SW 2 centred 70383 23579

(NN 7040 2358) St Fillan's Church (In Ruins) (NR)

OS 6" map (1901)

The present chapel at Dundurn, west of St Fillan's Hill, is 16th century. It is on the site of an earlier chapel said to have been erected by St Fillan (7th century) and of which nothing remains except a round stone basin. Now the burying-place of the Stewarts of Ardvoirlich.

S Korner 1858; C Rogers 1854

There is no record of the date of the present chapel of St Fillan's although it is known that it is pre-Reformation (it was abandoned at the Reformation) and it is on the site of the old chapel and was dedicated to St Fillan, the leper, who died c.520 AD. Since 1586 the present chapel, which is roofless has been the burial place of the Stewarts of Ardvorlich. It measures 8.7m x 3.7m internally. A holy water font, of the pre-Reformation period, which stood in a niche in the wall of the chapel is still in use in Dundurn Parish Church.

St Fillan's Chapel is the correct name (plaque on E wall).

Visited by OS (RD) 1 December 1966

NN 7038 2357. The roofless chapel is well-preserved.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (MJF) 29 August 1980.