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Latitude: 57.4407 / 57°26'26"N
Longitude: -4.4664 / 4°27'59"W
OS Eastings: 252058
OS Northings: 841614
OS Grid: NH520416
Mapcode National: GBR H9B1.YMS
Mapcode Global: WH3FF.C7CR
Plus Code: 9C9QCGRM+7C
Entry Name: The Temple, Belladrum
Listing Name: Belladrum, the Temple
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 340122
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB8075
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Belladrum, The Temple
ID on this website: 200340122
Location: Kiltarlity and Convinth
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Aird and Loch Ness
Parish: Kiltarlity And Convinth
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Chapel Architectural structure
Reginald Fairlie, 1935. Small chapel, elongated octagon.
Small canted vestry against S wall. Tooled ashlar with
polished ashlar dressings.
Centre entrance in W face, doorway reached by small flight
steps; rolled moulding to architraves, wheel window above.
Doorway flanked by long, narrow square-headed windows with
traceried heads. Similar pair window at E, all windows having
either Temperance, Prudence, Fortitude or Justice carved
on lintels. Small cruciform light high in centre of E Wall.
Vestry has centre door with simple narrow flanking windows;
panelled teak doors to both entrances; lattice-pane glazing.
Stepped base course.
Deep moulded wallhead cornices; ogee fishscale roof to chapel
with short leaded ridge linking pair leaded apex crosses.
Facetted slate roof to vestry. Interior; doorway to vestry
with similar door as entrance, metal memorial plaque above
doorway under cornice supporting further inscribed ashlar
plaque. At E small round-headed niche closed by decorative
grill containing 2 urns. Moulded timber panelled roof with
Tudor rose bosses as intersections.
Free standing altar with cusped panelled front; simple
turned communion rails.
Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. Sited on
small rise and screened by trees. Built by Mrs Merry of
Belladrum. Wall plaque reads "I have built this Memorial
Temple to the Glory of God to be a quiet resting place and a
holy shrine. Ida Merry of Belladrum, 14 August, 1935." Ashes
of W A Merry and Helen Eliza his wife contained in urns.
Slab tombstone outside to Col Eion J H Merry, 1904-1966.
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