Scheduled Monument
Tarbert,Cill Chaluim-Chille,chapel & cross marked stone,JuraSM4782
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 15/10/1990
- Supplementary Information Updated
- 10/08/2020
- Type
- Crosses and carved stones: cross-incised stone, Ecclesiastical: chapel
- Local Authority
- Argyll And Bute
- Parish
- Jura
- NGR
- NR 60910 82202
- Coordinates
- 160910, 682202
Description
The monument consists of St Columba's chapel and a cross marked standing stone 8 m W of it. The remains of St Columba's chapel lie on level ground about 130m N of Tarbert Bay. The chapel measures 7.8m (E-W) by 3.4m (N-S) within walls about lm thick, whose inner face is preserved to an average height of 0.9m. There was a doorway some 0.8m wide in the S wall and remains of an altar emplacement against the E wall. The cross marked stone is of local green schist , 1.9m high and 0.43 by 0.13 m at the base.
Both faces bear sunken Latin crosses 1 m high with a raised boss at the intersection of the arms. The scheduled area consists of two separate areas the larger of which includes the turf-covered walls of the chapel and the area which they enclose, some 10m (E-W) by 5.5m (N-S), and smaller of which includes the crossmarked stone with an area extending 1m from its base in all directions as marked in red on the accompanying plan.
Statement of National Importance
The site is of national importance both for the visible remains of the medieval chapel of St Columba and for the below-ground archaeological remains associated with them, which have the potential to shed significant light on early Christian liturgical usage and material culture. The crossmarked stone is of national importance as representing a significant standing feature of this early Christian site; the area about its base if excavated has the potential to shed light on the date at which it was erected in its present position and its relationship to the rest of the site.
References
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