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Strichen House, Chapel
Chapel (19th Century)
Site Name Strichen House, Chapel
Classification Chapel (19th Century)
Canmore ID 20744
Site Number NJ95SW 22.04
NGR NJ 93240 54435
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20744
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Strichen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ95SW 22.04 93240 54435
(NJ 9324 5443) Ruin (NR)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1902).
Chapel (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959).
The roofless ruin of an unfinished Roman Catholic chapel built, according to Collins (OS Reviser 1955), by Thomas Fraser, Lord Lovat. Thomas Alexander Fraser, the 10th of Strichen and 14th Lord Lovat, inherited the Lovat estates in 1837 and died in 1875.
Name Book 1870; A Mackenzie 1896.
The ruins of a 19th century chapel as described above. Not an antiquity.
Visited by OS (NKB) 17 March 1967.
