West Fingask, St James' Chapel And Lady's Well
Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Chapel (Period Unassigned), Holy Well (Period Unassigned), Mausoleum (Period Unassigned)
Site Name West Fingask, St James' Chapel And Lady's Well
Classification Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Chapel (Period Unassigned), Holy Well (Period Unassigned), Mausoleum (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 18733
Site Number NJ72NE 16
NGR NJ 7753 2735
NGR Description NJ 7753 2735 and NJ 7720 2745
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18733
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Daviot
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ72NE 16 7753 2735 and 7720 2745
(NJ 7753 2735) St James' Chapel (NR) (Site of)
(NJ 7720 2745) Lady's Well (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, (1959)
In 1845 there was a small enclosure, apparently a burial ground, and within it the remains of a chapel, believed to be Roman Catholic because a nearby well was known as The Lady's or Our Lady's Well, and because a silver crucifix was found at the spot when workmen were digging the foundations of a mausoleum about 1800. In 1867 there were no remains of the chapel or burial ground and The Lady's or Our Lady's Well had been filled up, though water still flowed from it.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; Name Book 1867.
No trace of St James' Chapel or Lady's Well in cultivated fields.
Visited by OS (RL) 12 February 1969.
Noted by GRC/AAS as NJ72NE 60 and NJ72NE 61.
NMRS, MS/712/70.
Nothing is visible of either St. James's Chapel or the Lady's Well, and their sites lie in cultivated fields. The chapel stood 90m SW of East Fingask farmsteading (NJ72NE 74), and the well lay a further 350m to the WNW, some 140m NNW of the modern farmsteading of West Fingask (NJ72NE 73).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 15 April 1999.
