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Chapel, most recently in use as store for the nearby farmstead (NO49NW0053), built in the late 19th century, possibly by A Marshall Mackenzie, and believed locally to be built on the site of the earlier chapel (NO49NW0028). It was never consecrated or officially used for worship, and in the 1890s it was proposed as housing for the prehistoric log boats found in the loch. This never materialised, and it became a store and museum by the then owners Mr and Mrs Wilson. Local oral tradition says that Mr Wilson sold out in 1895, and his wife was so enraged that she took all the exhibits from the museum and scattered them across the Muir of Dinnet. An old lady living in Bogingore (NO49NW0136) gathered up some of these artefacts as she found them on the Muir, and gave these to Mr L. Money in the 1960s, who subsequently passed these on to Mr M. Humphrey. Some of these items, include stone spindle whorls, incised pottery sherd, and a stone mortar were passed to the Burn O'Vat Visitor Centre in 2018 by Mr Humphrey. Furthermore within the oral tradition of the area it is also said that the Wilsons took one of the log boats found in the loch when they left for England. The remaining building is a single-storey rectangular-plan chapel on an elevated site overlooking Loch Kinord, constructed from bull-faced squared and snecked granite with a splayed base course. The gables are crowstepped, and there is a central doorway at the west gable with a small window above and a ball finial to the gable apex. There is a tripartite window at the east gable with a small window above and a Latin cross to the gable apex. The north elevation has an eight-light horizontal window and there is a tall square-plan stack at the north-east angle. All the windows are now boarded up and there is a boarded timber door. There are grey slates to the north roof profile, grey and green banded slates to the south incorporating bands of fishscale slates, a lead ridge and cast-iron rhones with cavetto profile and rhone pipes.
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