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Back Boath
Chapel (Medieval)
Site Name Back Boath
Classification Chapel (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) St Lawrence's Chapel
Canmore ID 34612
Site Number NO54NE 10
NGR NO 5552 4566
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/34612
- Council Angus
- Parish Carmyllie
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO54NE 10 5552 4566.
(NO 5552 4566) Site of St Lawrence's or Boath Chapel (NR)
OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1926)
A chapel, dedicated to St Lawrence, existed at Backboath as early as 1250. Its site is still pointed out in a field called the Chapelshade, beside a well which has now been drained into a neighbouring ditch. The remains of the chapel walls, 2' or 3' in height, several tombstones in the surrounding burial ground, and the enclosing fence were cleared away early in the 19th century, and the site was converted into arable land. Some of the dressed stones from the chapel are built into the walls of the farm steading.
Name Book 1858; D Miller 1860.
Name of chapel, field, and siting verified locally. No visible remains.
Visited by OS (RD) 13 May 1966.
NO 555 456 The faint trace of a sub-triangular enclosure with rounded corners is visible on vertical aerial photographs taken in 1946 by the RAF in a location where an early chapel and burial ground stood till the middle of the 19th century.
Peter Leeming, 2006.
Field Visit (March 1978)
Back Boath NO 555 456 NO54NE 10
The ruins and gravestones of the chapel of St Lawrence were removed from the NW slope of Boath Hill about 1840.
RCAHMS 1978, visited March 1978
(Miller 1860, 141-2)
