Hillhead Of Lethenty, St Margaret's Chapel And Well
Chapel (Period Unassigned), Holy Well (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Hillhead Of Lethenty, St Margaret's Chapel And Well
Classification Chapel (Period Unassigned), Holy Well (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 18729
Site Number NJ72NE 12
NGR NJ 7608 2543
NGR Description NJ 7608 2543 and NJ 7606 2541
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18729
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Chapel Of Garioch
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ72NE 12 7608 2543 and 7606 2541
(NJ 7608 2543) St Margaret's Chapel (NR) (Site of)
(NJ 7606 2541) St Margaret's Well (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, (1959)
The foundations of a building, said to have been a Roman Catholic chapel with a well close by, could be seen a few years ago on the estate of Lethenty. The Well is still visible but no vestige of the building exists now (NSA 1845).
It is generally supposed that the name of the chapel was St Margaret's Chapel. The Well is a good spring (Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] 1867).
NSA 1845; Name Book 1867.
No trace of a chapel, but the tradition is still known locally. A modern concrete well occupies the site of St Margaret's Well. It forms the water supply for a building at NJ 7587 2522.
Visited by OS (RL) 28 February 1969.
GRC/AAS NJ72NE 58 and NJ72NE 59.
NMRS, MS/712/70.
Nothing is visible of either St Margaret's Chapel or an associated well, which both lay in what is now a cultivated field 150m SW of Hillhead of Lethenty farmsteading (NJ72NE 174.00).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 15 April 1999.
