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
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
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.