ECCLESIAMAGIRDLE OR EXMAGIRDLE CHAPEL, PERTHSHIRE.

A small ruined chapel situated on the north side of the Ochil Hills,

about three miles south-west from the Bridge of Earn. It is surrounded

by an old burial-ground, and adjoins the picturesque seventeenth century

mansion of Glenearn.

The building (Fig. 1458), which is roofless, is otherwise fairly entire,

but it is densely covered with ivy and its features are not easily seen.

It measures about 25 feet 7 inches long by about

[Illustration: FIG. 1458.--Ecclesiamagirdle or Exmagirdle Chapel. Plan.]

11 feet 5 inches wide inside the walls. The door in the south wall is

lintelled and has a splay all round. There is a round-headed window

(Fig. 1459) at the east end about 9 inches wide and about 2 feet high,

having a stepped sill on the inside. A lintelled window in the west

gable, now filled with a monument on the inside, measures about 29

inches wide. Both of these windows are splayed on the outside. The end

window has been fitted with a smaller window at some later period.

In the centre of the east wall there appears to have been a recess about

4 feet 2 inches wide, and, as far as can be seen, it does not show on

the outside. Its sill is about 4 feet up from the floor, and there has

evidently been some kind of fixture against the end wall here, probably

an

[Illustration: FIG. 1459.--Ecclesiamagirdle or Exmagirdle Chapel.

Round-headed Window at East End.]

altar. Adjoining this, on the north wall, is a small ambry, checked for

a door flush with the inside wall.

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