Chapel, Little Leny, Callendar is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 1979.
Chapel, Little Leny, Callendar
- WRENN ID
- tattered-lancet-acorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 September 1979
- OS grid reference
- NN 621 076
- Coordinates
- 56.24133, -4.2254
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The burial ground, located near Callander within the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, comprises an 18th-century burial enclosure alongside a 19th-century burial ground. It sits on a hillock at the junction of the Eas Gobhain and Garbe Usige burns, close to a former railway line (now a cycling path). The site is bounded by mature oak trees and is occasionally inaccessible due to flooding. Its local interest is considered to be good.
The burial ground is rectangular in plan and is flanked by the burial enclosure to the northwest. A cast-iron fence surrounds the entire site. The enclosure is entered via a round-arched entrance with a cast-iron gate on the south side, topped by a finial inscribed 'The Buchanan Chapel 1214'. Local tradition states that a chapel once stood on the site but was relocated due to a change in the river’s course, and fragments of the original chapel fabric might be incorporated into the enclosure walls.
Within the enclosure are twenty grave markers and memorial stones, many with partially illegible inscriptions. Four sandstone plaques are mounted on the west, north, and east walls, dating from 1724. The north-facing plaque reads 'The bell tolleth to the family of Bochastel at 19 boots of length upon both the syd vals' – signed WB, IB, 1724. A granite plaque, erected in 1995, is also on the north wall, dedicated to Dugald Buchanan, noting him as a Gaelic poet, teacher, and evangelist, and commemorating his contributions to Highland literature. Several 19th and 20th-century gravestones are situated within the surrounding burial ground, some enclosed by three iron railings. The walls of the enclosure are constructed from random rubble with smeared pointing and triangular copes.
Local climate
Chapel, Little Leny, Callendar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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