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Desk Based Assessment
Date 5 April 1973
Event ID 698290
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/698290
NS03SW 5.00 03229 32276
(NS 0322 3227) Kilbride Chapel (NR) (In Ruins)
OS 6" map, (1924)
NS03SW 5.01 NS 03224 32260 Churchyard
NS03SW 5.02 Cross
Kilbride Chapel, subsequently the parish church, is first mentioned in 1357. It is now ruinous, with small arched doors and windows. A modern fence, running N-S, intersects the building; E of it is a small chamber, paved with gravestones. Some years ago, the E gable fell into ruins among which a monogrammed stone, dated 1618 was found. This stone (see illustration Card) was built into the wall when the gable was reconstructed; it is now partly ivy-covered. No doubt it was presented by the Marquis of Hamilton, patron of Kilbride. There is a cruciform headstone within the chapel. Another was found a few years ago beneath the ruins of the chapel, and is now placed over the grave of a sailor washed ashore in Lamlash Bay. A third was found in may 1892 when digging within a few yards of the E side of church.
Balfour alleges that the latter cross, now lying face down within the chapel, was removed from the burial ground on Holy Island (NS03SE 1) about 1858, and buried in the churchyard here. Many grave-slabs in the burial ground have been effaced, but some are shown on Illustration.
Sources: J McArthur 1873; D Landsborough 1897; J A Balfour 1909; J A Balfour 1910.
