Lord Ninian Crichton Stuart Memorial Chapel, House Of Falkland is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Chapel.
Lord Ninian Crichton Stuart Memorial Chapel, House Of Falkland
- WRENN ID
- north-frieze-frost
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Reginald Fairlie, begun 1912, dated 1916. Unfinished, 4-bay, gothic, roofless, crenallated and buttressed memorial chapel, situated on small rise within House of Falkland Estate. Squared and snecked grey sandstone with ashlar margins. Deep base course with moulded band course above. Machicolated moulded cornice with semi-circular corbel brackets beneath. Stepped side and corner buttresses, some with pyramidal caps. Chamfered tripartitie window openings; elaborate tracery. Waterspouts.
WEST ELEVATION (ENTRANCE): near symmetrical. Central round-arched entrance doorway, slightly advanced, with decorative iron gate and moulded hood-mould; flanking buttresses; dated 1916 above left. Segmental-arched window opening above, flanked by pair of empty niches.
NORTH ELEVATION: advanced 2-bay section to left.
EAST ELEVATION: buttressed, with no openings.
SOUTH ELEVATION: Crow-stepped gable to far right.
INTERIOR: nave and aisle, 4-bays. Rubble walls. Round- and pointed- arched openings. Ashlar piers. Several family memorial plaques.
Detailed Attributes
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