St Maurice's Chapel
Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval), Well (Medieval)
Site Name St Maurice's Chapel
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval), Well (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Seven Maiden's Well
Canmore ID 27740
Site Number NO08NE 2
NGR NO 0866 8939
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/27740
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Crathie And Braemar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NO08NE 2 0866 8939
(NO 0866 8939) Grave Yard (Disused) (NAT)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1903)
Keith, writing about 1732, mentions as extant a chapel of "The Seven Maidens, at Inverey, where that family buries their dead." Stirton was doubtful if they were the same chapel but Erskine believed that they were. There is a Seven Maidens' Well in the vicinity of Inverey Castle.
A Keith 1732; S Erskine 1898.
The site of the chapel of St Maurice where William Farquharson, the "Black Colonel", was buried in 1698 or 1699.
J Stirton 1925.
No trace of a chapel within the graveyard which is an enclosure formed by a turf-covered bank c. 0.9metres maximum height, c. 1.0 metres wide. It is no longer used and there is no sign of graves. No local knowledge of a chapel or of Seven Maidens Well.
Graveyard enclosure resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L), 17 October 1967.
