Alternative Names Chapel Stone
Site type CHAPEL (POSSIBLE)
Canmore ID 67712
Site Number NY38SW 1
NGR NY 3113 8254
Council DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Parish LANGHOLM
Former Region DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Former District ANNANDALE AND ESKDALE
Former County DUMFRIES-SHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NY38SW 1 3113 8254.

(NY 3111 8253) St Bride's Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)

This spot was pointed out as the site of a chapel dedicated to St Bride, by three local informants including Mr Todd of Cleughfoot, who removed some of its foundation stones when last cultivating the field in which it stood. It is said that it went out of use at the Reformation.
The 'Chapel Stone', a crudely worked stone, 7 ft in girth, may still be seen at the site.
Name Book 1857; J and R Hyslop 1912

The area indicated is regularly ploughed but no apparent stone building foundations have been uncovered (Mr Hendry, Cleuchfoot). The 'Chapel Stone' is presumably the partially buried slab at NY 3113 8254; it measures approximately 1.8m by 0.6m and lies on a slight natural tump.
Visited by OS (MJF), 27 August 1979.

There are no visible remains of this chapel. An estate map of 1810 depicts its site about 550m WSW of Cleuchfoot farmhouse (NY 309 826) and about 200m NW of the site recorded by the OS.
RCAHMS 1981, visited March 1981.
OS 6-inch map, Dumfriesshire, 1st ed. (1862), sheet xlv.

Listed as chapel.
RCAHMS 1997.

Brooke, C J (2000) Safe sanctuaries: security and defence in Anglo-Scottish border churches 1290-1690, Edinburgh
Page(s): 326 Held at RCAHMS F.5.31.BRO

Hyslop and Hyslop, J and R (1912) Langholm as it was: a history of Langholm and Eskdale from the earliest times, Sunderland; Edinburgh; Glasgow
Page(s): 139-41 Held at RCAHMS D.3.12.LAN

Ordnance Survey (Name Book) Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey (6 inch and 1/2500 scale)
Page(s): Dumfriesshire, no. 35, 154 Held at RCAHMS Ref