MONCRIEFF CHAPEL, PERTHSHIRE.

A ruined chapel situated in the grounds adjoining the mansion house of

Moncrieff, about three miles south-east of Perth. It is closely hemmed

in with trees and is completely ivy clad, and measures in the inside

about 34 feet 6 inches long by 13 feet wide. The building (Fig. 1483) is

a pre-Reformation

[Illustration: FIG. 1483.--Moncrieff Chapel. Plan.]

church, but has evidently been used and altered in Presbyterian times,

and within the last few years it has been enlarged with an apse and

transepts, so as to form a burial-place. Most of the stones for this

purpose were taken from the ruins of the splendid old bridge which

[Illustration: FIG. 1484.--Moncrieff Chapel.

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