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Chapelton Burial-ground
Cemetery (Post Medieval), Chapel (17th Century)
Site Name Chapelton Burial-ground
Classification Cemetery (Post Medieval), Chapel (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) St Ninian's Chapel
Canmore ID 34905
Site Number NO55SW 14
NGR NO 54058 50708
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/34905
- Council Angus
- Parish Rescobie
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO55SW 14 54058 50708.
(NO 5406 5071) St Ninian's Chapel (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map, (1969)
A burial ground is situated on the Balmadies estate, but there are no traditions of an associated chapel.
Statistical Account (OSA) 1791-9.
"The chapel (of Rescobie), dedicated to St Madoc, stood on a small knoll or hillock a little to the SE of Aldbar railway station, but all that remains of it is a small burial-ground, surrounded by a wall, the lintell of the doorway in which bears ANO MDCLXIX."
A J Warden 1880-5.
Previous to the Reformation a large part of the eastern end of Rescobie parish formed a separate parochial district. The church and churchyard stood on what is now Chapeltown farm. All trace of the building has disappeared.
J Carrie 1881.
There are 18 stones in the Chapeltown burial-ground, the oldest decipherable date being 1625.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.
Field Visit (March 1978)
Chapelton, Rescobie NO 540 507 NO55SW 14
On a hillock overlooking the Lunan Water WNW of Milldens there is a disused burial¬ ground. This may occupy the site of a chapel which served the E end of Rescobie Parish.
RCAHMS 1978, visited March 1978
(Stat Acct, xiv, 1795, 602-3; NSA, xi, Forfar, 607; Carrie 1881, 88)
