Chapel House and Burial Ground, Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chapeltown

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Parish Inveravon National Park Cairngorms NGR NJ 24170 20992 Coordinates 324170, 820992 — CHURCH: John Kinross, 1896-7. Scottish Romanesque. Rectangular church orientated roughly N-S fronted at S by 3-stage square gabled tower with entrance in centre of N face. Harled with pink tooled granite dressings. Recessed pointed-headed doorway with moulded surrounds double-leaf plank doors with ornate cast-iron hinges. Canopied niche above housing statue of Our Lady. Long and short angle dressings to tower, with crowstepped gabled, apex cross and grouped quatrefoil vents in each face. Long, 4-bay nave elevations lit by narrow hoodmoulded, round-headed lights with leaded glazing. Chancel lit by round-headed tripartite under continuous hoodmould in E elevation below diminutive arcaded eaves band. Lean-to sacristy at W. Slate roof. Church linked at W to Chapel House (see below). INTERIOR: richly stencilled lofty aisles interior; stencilled decoration continues to panelled gallery front across N end of church. High chancel with plain walls and richly decorated timber barrel vaulted ceiling; carved canopied reredos with paintings of saints flanking central picture of Our Lady, all with gilded backgrounds. 5-panelled front to altar, each panel illustrated with angel with musical instrument. Simple pine pews; facetted pulpit decorated with vines on ashlar base; marble font. CHAPEL HOUSE: 1830-40, raised to 2 storeys in later 19th century. SE facing 2-storey, symmetrical 3-bay house with symmetrical 3-window rear elevation, linked by 2-storey, single bay wing to chancel. Centre door masked by late 19th century gabled and glazed porch. 4- and 12-pane glazing; end stacks; Tomintoul slate roof. BURIAL GROUND: r

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.