Upper Blainslie

NT54SW 6 5381 4480.

NT 5381 4480. A ruinous rubble building which is now known as Cheildhelles Chapel (see NT54NW 21) possesses ecclesiastical features and may well be the remains of a farm building. It is oblong on plan, with its major axis running NNW-SSE. The N gable and part of the E wall have been rebuilt, the former obliquely to the major axis, so as to make the length of the east side 39ft 3ins and the west side 35ft 9ins, while the width averages 17ft over walls about 1ft 9 1/2ins thick and still standing about 7ft high. The original entrance was in the east wall and was evidently built up when a new entrance was struck out through the south gable. Above the later doorway can be seen a built-up window. Two other built-up windows can be traced in the west wall (RCAHMS 1956, visited 1947).

Visited by OS (WDJ) 1 October 1962