Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of Balcarres Chapel, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Colinsburgh, East Neuk of Fife. This Scottish chapel, in the east garden of Balcarres House, was built for David Lindsay, 1st Lord Balcarres in 1635. He is buried in the chapel. It is in a woodland clearing to the west of a private road running through the Balcarres Estate. The building consists of a single gabled cell which is orientated east-west and built from sandstone rubble, which is badly weathered in places. It has no roof, but is well maintained and sits on neatly landscaped ground. The north, east and south elevations have each two windows, the lower of which have thick Y tracery and pointed frames. The upper windows have three intersecting mouchettes. The east face is capped by thick skews and is supported by rounded buttresses with obelisk pinnacles and in front of the face are a series of memorials to members of the Lindsay family. The west elevation is capped by a birdcage bellcote and thick skews. It is supported by rounded pinnacle buttresses each of which springs from a rectangular pier on which is carved a skeleton and a memento mori inscription. There is a coat of arms in the centre of the face, probably that of Lord Lindsay. Below this is a rounded arched doorway which is approached up three steps. On either side of the wrought iron door are slender piers with moulded capitals. On either side of the door are Y tracery windows. Carved stones, which were previously part of the main gate into the estate, have been placed against the wall on either side of the door.
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