Memorial Chapel

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
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Listing ref	LB31352
Listing name	House of Falkland Estate, Crichton-Stuart Memorial Chapel

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The Memorial Chapel is a roofless building in teh House of Falkland designed landscape. It was begun as a memorial to the young son of Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart and intended to be used as the Roman Catholic church for the neighbourhood, but was unfinished at Lord Ninian's death in action in 1915 and never completed. It contains the graves of several members of the Crichton-Stuart family, and is used as a venue for wedding ceremonies.

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. ...

Further references

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