Memorial Chapel

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Building details
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Name Memorial Chapel
Address ?
Postcode ?
Date 1912–1916
Architect Reginald Fairlie
OS grid ref NO 24708 7306
Latitude & longitude
Listing Category #
Listing ref LB31352
Listing name House of Falkland Estate, Crichton-Stuart Memorial Chapel

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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.

Statement of Special Interest: This is an early 20th century memorial chapel, designed by one of Scotland's leading architects for one of Scotland's leading families. ...[1]

Further references

"A roofless shell begun by Reginald Fairlie in 1912 but never finished. Sturdy Scots Late Gothic."[2] [3]

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