Archaeology Notes

Event ID 708683

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT00NE 11 07389 05492

(NT 0739 0551) Chapel (NR)

OS 6" map, (1957)

See also NT00NE 84 for farm cottages adjoining ruins, which incorporate the Eastern gable of the chapel.

The 13th century chapel of St Cuthbert, traditionally said to have been built by the Knights Templars who for a long time held the lands of Chapel, Craikscraigs, Gardenholm and Holehouse (Keddie 1855) was apparently oblong on plan, 21'6" by 44'9". All that remained in 1912 was the W gable, which contained a pointed arched doorway, and a fragment of the E gable. Keddie adds, 'there are remains of extensive buildings close by to which the chapel was attached.'

RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912

The W and E gables of this chapel are still standing. The tradition still survives, but the dedication could not be confirmed.

To be supplied by Field Surveyor.

Visited by OS (I A) 20 August 1973

NT 0739 0549. The ruinious, ivy-covered E wall is approximately 7.0m high and 6.0m wide; it has a blocked doorway 2.0m high and 0.9m wide with red sandstone quoins. It forms one end of a small occupied dwelling. The W wall, 4.0m high and 3.0m wide, has a pointed window of red sandstone with fragments of tracery which appears to have been three lancets. Both walls are crudely mortared.

Visited by OS (M J F) 30 August 1978.