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
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
Fig. 1484.—Moncrieff Chapel.
Stoup.
crossed the Earn about a mile distant at Bridge of Earn.