Fishwick Mortuary Chapel Hutton, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Fishwick Mortuary Chapel has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 338533 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 6822
- Canmore ID
- 96802
- Category
- C
- Name
- Fishwick Mortuary Chapel Including Graveyard and Boundary Wall
- Parish
- Hutton
- County
- Scottish Borders
- Easting
- 392526
- Northing
- 650115
- Date Listed
- 15 March 2001
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Circa 1835. Remains of rectangular-plan, plain gothic former mortuary chapel with surrounding graveyard on level site within 4-sided, near rectangular-plan bluff. Coursed pink sandstone (tooled in part); sandstone ashlar dressings. Gabletted, buttressed angles; gabletted buttresses to sides. W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled with pointed-arched entrance centred at ground; studded and boarded timber door (off hinges); architraved surround with engaged colonnettes. Rose window aligned above; gabled belfry at gablehead (bell missing). N (SIDE) ELEVATION: gabletted buttresses dividing 3 blind bays. E (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled with 3-light perpendicular window at centre; columnar mullions; architraved surround with engaged colonnettes. S (SIDE) ELEVATION: gabletted buttresses dividing 3 blind bays. Glazing missing. Roof timbers in place; stone slates missing (recorded on ground 1995). INTERIOR: remains of stone slab floor. Coursed sandstone walls. Remains of barrel-vaulted roof comprising timber rafters; round-arched timber collar brace with nailhead chiselled carvings; corbelled sandstone springers. GRAVEYARD: set on level ground surrounding chapel with various gravestones including recumbent stones, stones with memento mori, table-top monuments. BOUNDARY WALL: rubble wall enclosing site.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Overgrown and no longer in use 1999. Just to the W of the River Tweed, this former mortuary chapel and graveyard are all that remain of the mediaeval village of Fishwick - originally a separate parish before unification with Hutton in 1610. The chapel was commissioned by Mr James MacBriare, proprietor of Fishwick, to replace the 12th century Fishwick Church which had stood on the same site and was demolished circa 1835. The chapel was last used in 1914 on the death of Mrs Anna MacBriare. According to Craw, the graveyard contains 8 sculptured gravestones, whilst Cargill notes 44 stones in total - the oldest being a table-top monument dated 1614.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Armstrong's map, 1771 (marked 'Kirk in Ruins'). Ordnance Survey map, 1857 (marked 'Vault & Old Graveyard, Site of Fishwick Church'). J Ferguson 'The Pre-Reformation Churches of Berwickshire', BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB TRANSACTIONS (1890-1891) p133. RCAHMS INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS AND CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE COUNTY OF BERWICK (1915) p99. J H Craw, 'The Post-Reformation Symbolic Gravestones of Berwickshire HISTORY OF THE BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB Vol 25 (1925) pp417-419. D C Cargill PRE-1855 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS OF BERWICKSHIRE (1970) typescript. G A C Binnie THE CHURCHES AND GRAVEYARDS OF BERWICKSHIRE (1995) p285, pp292-294.
