Kinrara, Duchess Of Gordon's Monument
Chapel (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Commemorative Monument (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kinrara, Duchess Of Gordon's Monument
Classification Chapel (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Commemorative Monument (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) St Eata's Chapel; St Eata, At Kinara
Canmore ID 14888
Site Number NH80NE 4
NGR NH 86878 07688
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14888
- Council Highland
- Parish Alvie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH80NE 4 86878 07688
(NH 8687 0767) Duchess of Gordon's Monument (NAT)
Site of St. Eata's Chapel (NR).
OS 6" map, Inverness, 2nd ed., (1903).
See also NH80NE 18.
Before the erection of the monument to Jane, Duchess of Gordon in 1812, the site of St. Eata's chapel was visible. but since the interment replanting and trenching have removed all traces. Nothing is known of the erection of the chapel or when it was disused.
Shaw records that 'St Eata, at Kinara' was one of three pre-Reformation chapels, besides the parish church, in Alvie.
Name Book 1871; L Shaw 1882.
No further information.
Visited by OS (N K B), 28 November 1966.
REFERENCE - Scottish Record Office
Monument to Jane, Duchess of Gordon
1873 Thomas Sams, sculptor.
GD 44/Sec 51/280
GD 44/Sec 52/200/40
(Undated) information in NMRS.
