Faslane Chapel
| St Michael's Chapel | |
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Dunbartonshire | |
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 The ruin of the chapel | |
| Type: | Chapel |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NS24898986 |
| Location: | 56°4’8"N, 4°48’50"W |
| History | |
| Chapel | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Ruins |
Faslane Chapel, also known as St Michael's Chapel, stands in ruin above Faslane in Dunbartonshire, looking down over Gair Loch, the shoeline there now filled by HM Naval Base Clyde. The site of the chapel is close by that of Faslane Castle; the latter now entirely disappeared.
Fraser described the ruins of the chapel as measuring 43 feet by 23 feet. He stated that stones had been removed from the site, except for two gable ends that still stood at the time of his writing (1869) and still do, largely. Fraser wrote that the foundations of what was reputed to be the priest's house, could still be seen between the chapel and the barn. On the site he noted that on the site of the stream, located beneath the bank, there was a spring called "The Priest's Well".
The antiquarian George Chalmers, and the late 19th and early 20th century architects David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross, stated that the chapel had apparently been dedicated to St Michael, and that it may date from the 13th or 14th century. In 1963, the Ordnance Survey visited the site and noted that the chapel and the south wall had been rebuilt (without mortar), to a height of four feet. However, there were no traces of the original burying ground, the priest's house, or the well.
The site is currently situated within a modern cemetery.[1]
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