Old Churches House, Dunblane - the old chapel
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Old Churches House, Dunblane - the old chapel
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 27 Jun 2019
This small chapel behind Old Churches House Image is not regularly open to the public, but customers of the restaurant may ask to borrow the key. It has an interesting history: described non-comittally by Historic Scotland in the listing (category B, LB 26380) as a 'vaulted chamber' because it is unclear whether it was originally a chapel, ice-house or served some other purpose. But it clearly formed part of a larger building, possibly the Archdeacon's manse of the 16th century. It was restored to religious use when the nearby buildings became a church conference centre in the 1960s and is still occasionally used for worship. See Image for the inside and Image for a 1972 view, not long after its restoration.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.189516
Longitude
-3.963415