Chapel And Burial Ground, Megginch Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Chapel.
Chapel And Burial Ground, Megginch Castle
- WRENN ID
- fallow-column-jay
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- NO 239 244
- Coordinates
- 56.40625, -3.23324
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Chapel and Burial Ground at Megginch Castle, built in 1679 and rebuilt in 1781, is a small, rectangular-plan chapel featuring crowstepped gables and a small graveyard. The structure is made of snecked rubble with squared quoins and dressed ashlar margins, showcasing a Gothic window and chamfered arrises.
On the northwest elevation, there is a wide boarded timber door located at the center bay, which abuts the eaves. The southwest elevation presents a gabled façade with a pointed-arch window at the center. The southeast elevation, facing the graveyard, has a small square window to the right of center. The chapel features fixed glazing with stained glass on the southwest side and is topped with graded grey slates and ashlar-coped crowsteps.
Inside, the chapel contains moral monuments and a small lectern sundial of late 17th-century design, which bears an inscription from 1890 dedicated to 'PH' (Peter Hay) and 'MS' (Marjory Scrymegour) located at the northeast corner.
Local climate
Chapel And Burial Ground, Megginch Castle receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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