Aberdeenshire HER - NO08NE0055 - ST NINIAN'S CHAPEL, MAR LODGE ESTATE

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Primary ReferenceNO08NE0055
NameST NINIAN'S CHAPEL, MAR LODGE ESTATE
NRHE Card No.NO08NE12
NRHE Numlink 77391
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. 50768
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Complete 2
Details Chapel, designed by A Marshall Mackenzie, circa 1895, to the north-east of Mar Lodge (NO08NE0003). A small, 3-bay aisleless, neo-Romanesque chapel built of squared and coursed rubble. Steeply pitched rounded arch entrance porch to the southwest with a timber boarded 2-leaf door, decorative ironmongery. The chapel has small round-arched windows, timber diamond lattice trellising to the north elevation, a single lancet light to the west gable elevation and a rounded light to the east gable with Celtic cross finial above. Steeply pitched red tiled roof with ridge caps and ashlar coping to gable ends, with a pair of triangular ventilators near the ridge to the north. The interior has a stone floored sanctuary, timber boards to rest of church. Ornate altar furnishings including timber reredos with painted panels and altar hangings. Funerary monuments to Duke and Duchess of Fife in front of altar. Exposed hammerbeam roof. The chapel contains two Commonwealth war graves.
Last Update14/09/2022
Updated Bycpalmer
CompilerNCA
Date of Compilation01/02/2017

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GRAVESWARCOMMONWEALTHB100
CHAPELS  A100