Chapel, Drum Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Chapel.
Chapel, Drum Castle
- WRENN ID
- solemn-passage-thyme
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- NJ 795 004
- Coordinates
- 57.0947, -2.33875
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Chapel at Drum Castle dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, with earlier origins suggested. It is a small, rectangular building constructed from rubble, featuring crowstepped gables and grotesque heads at the eastern end. The chapel was re-roofed in 1857, during which the west window was enlarged and a cross was added.
Masonry repairs were made in 1864, along with alterations to the altar and credence. A font was installed in 1882, and a brass figure of the Blessed Virgin, believed to have originated from Augsburg in Germany, was added in 1897. In 1951, a segmentally arched tomb recess for Sir Alexander Irvine, who passed away in 1911 and was originally located at Drum's Aisle in St Nicholas, Aberdeen, was re-erected in the chapel.
Local climate
Chapel, Drum Castle receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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