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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE (Ruins of) | The Slaughter House (Ruins of) The Slaughter House (Ruins of) The Slaughter House (Ruins of) |
Rev. [Reverend] William Crawford Rev. [Reverend] William Leslie William Gowrie |
013 | [Situation] About 2 chains South of Crichton Castle. A rectangular stone building a few yards south of Crichton Castle, it has all the appearance of an old chapel, its longest sides being sustained each by 4 sloping buttresses. its interior is divided into an upper and lower apartment, the latter covered by a vaulted ceiling. It cannot be ascertained in the locality for what it had been erected for. Some imagine it was for the accommodation of visitors retainers, others that it was for keeping cattle in when carried off the English borders by the Scotch Reivers, |
Ruins of CHAPEL (Supposed) [The Slaughter House] | 013 | |||
HARLE RIGGING | Harley Rigging | See Name Book 14 C | 013 | [Situation] About 1¼mile E. [East] from Crichton Castle See descript: [description] Rem.[--] in Name Book of Plan 14 C |
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[Page] 36Parish of Crichton
"Near the castle still stand the ruins of what appears
"to have been a chapel"
Stat [Statistical] Acct. [Account] 1845
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