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Rossdhu, St Mary's Chapel

Chapel (15th Century), Effigy (Period Unknown)

Site Name Rossdhu, St Mary's Chapel

Classification Chapel (15th Century), Effigy (Period Unknown)

Alternative Name(s) Rossdhu House Policies, Chapel Of St Mary; Our Lady's Chapel Of Rosdew

Canmore ID 42455

Site Number NS38NE 1

NGR NS 36146 89588

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Luss
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Dumbarton
  • Former County Dunbartonshire

Archaeology Notes

NS38NE 1 36146 89588

For Rossdhu House (NS 3619 8950) and associated buildings, see NS38NE 17.

(NS 3614 8959) Chapel (NR) (In Ruins)

OS 6" map (1923)

A chapel was founded at Rossdhu so early as 1107. Part of the building remains and is used as a family burial-place. An effigy within it is said to be of St Kessog.

D Macleod 1891

The chapel is called The Chapel of St Mary or Our Lady's Chapel of Rosdew.

W Fraser 1869; Orig Paroch Scot 1850

The chapel is a rectangular, gabled building, now roofless, measuring 9.0m by 5.0m internally, within walls 0.6m thick. The floor of the chapel is covered with slate grave-slabs. The stone effigy referred to in Macleod is now in St Kessog's Church, Luss (NS39NE 1).

Visited by OS (WDJ) 18 January 1963

The walls may be part of the original medieval church.

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Activities

Field Visit (August 1977)

Chapel, Rossdhu NS 361 895 NS38NE

This chapel is said to have been founded in 1107. The existing roofless building may incorporate medieval work.

RCAHMS 1978, visited August 1977

(OPS 1851-5, i, 30, 31; Fraser 1869, ii, 59-60)

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