Tour Scotland Photographs Guthrie Aisle Angus

Tour Scotland photograph of the Guthrie Aisle, Angus, Scotland. The Guthrie Aisle stands today beside a modern church, isolated and unimpressive. It is all that survives of the Collegiate Kirk of Guthrie, to which it was attached for more than three hundred years. Until 1826 this chapel projected from the South wall of the nave, its East wall in line with the East gable of the original church. The aisle is a gabled structure, built of local Angus rubble and roofed with Arbroath type slabs. External features such as the doorway in the West wall and thewindows in the West wall and South gable are of wrought ashlar with well-cut mouldings of late medieval character. The North gable was rebuilt in its present form in the early nineteenth century when the medieval nave was demolished. The aisle was the private burial vault of the Guthrie family and as such was preserved when the remainder of the old church was destroyed. The greater part of the roof timbers have survived with many of the painted boards which were attached to them to form a vaulted ceiling.


Photograph of the entrance to the Guthrie Aisle, Angus, Scotland.


Photograph of the sign at Guthrie Aisle, Angus, Scotland.

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