2012

NN6207 : Mural tablet in ruined chapel

taken 12 years ago, near to Callander, Stirling, Scotland

Mural tablet in ruined chapel
Mural tablet in ruined chapel
This stone is set high in the western wall of a walled enclosure that is now a burial ground, but which was formerly a chapel; see NN6207 : Buchanan burial ground, Callander for an external view of the structure, and NN6207 : Buchanan burial ground, Callander for the interior.

There are a number of stones like this set high in the walls, on the inside, specifying the areas allocated to different families. For example, the one shown in the present photograph reads as follows (note that "gavel" = modern "gable"):

"FROM THE [NORTH]
SYD TO THE MID[DLE]
OF THIS GAVEL AT
ELEVEN FOOT[S]
OF LENTH FROM
THE GAVEL BEL
ONGETH TO AL
EXANDER BUCHAN
AN OF DULETER
AB MG
1724"

[The word "NORTH" is not really legible, but can be inferred from the fact that this tablet is set in the northern half of the western gable wall. Of the rectangular area extending up to eleven feet eastwards from this gable wall, the lair owner of the northern half is set out on this tablet, and that of the southern half on a nearby tablet, which is described below.]

On the place-name "Duleter", see NN5805 and NN6006.

To give just one other example, further to the left (south) on the same wall, a similar stone reads (as far as I can make out) as follows: "FROM THE SOUTH / SIDE TO THE MID/DLE OF THIS GAV/EL AT ELEVEN F/OOT FROM THE G/AVEL BELONGETH / TO IOHN BOUCHANAN / OF TORRIE / IB MMc" (on Torrie, see NN6504).
The Buchanan burial ground

This burial ground near Callander was for the Buchanans of Leny and their descendants. It occupies a knoll, on which stand the roofless remnants of a chapel: "there is another hill, larger than Tom-ma-Chessaig (NN6207), at Little Leny, where Norie's Chapel stood, and which is still used as a cemetery by those of the name of Buchanan" ["Old Statistical Account" (1794)]. See LinkExternal link (at Canmore) for further details.


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Geographical Context: Burial ground, Crematorium Place: Callander Ruin: Chapel
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Burial Ground [13] · North [11] · External View [2] Other Photos: · Buchanan burial ground, Callander ·
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Lairich Rig   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 10 July, 2012   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 19 July, 2012
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NN 6212 0765 [10m precision]
WGS84: 56:14.4790N 4:13.5826W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NN 6213 0765
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