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In a quiet graveyard on the road from Edzell village to Edzell Castle, this small red sandstone building is all that remains of Edzell's medieval parish church of St Laurence. It was added to the south side of the church about 1550 as a chantry chapel, where Masses were sung for the dead, and later became the burial aisle of the Lindsay earls of Crawford, lairds of the castle 500 m away. When a new parish church was built in the village in 1818, the old church was pulled down and used as a quarry, and only the aisle was spared. It is a plain rectangle with fine details: a stone piscina for washing the Mass vessels and a tomb recess that has lost its effigy. Its arched opening, which once led into the nave, is now closed by a grille through which you can look inside. The burial ground has probably been used for over a thousand years. The aisle is seen from outside, with parking near the churchyard.
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- Lindsay Burial AisleExterior only, open all year; an unstaffed churchyard site, no hours published
Opening times may change at short notice.
Historic Scotland: 'Lindsay Burial Aisle is free to visit and open all year round. You can view the exterior only.' No hours are published. The aisle stands in Edzell's old churchyard, a burial ground still in use, and its great arch is closed by a grille through which the interior can be seen.
The burial vault below, with its central boss carved as four skulls, is not accessible to visitors. No toilets or other facilities; Edzell Castle and Garden, a separate Historic Scotland site about 500 m away, is closed for the autumn and winter.
Photo: The red sandstone Lindsay Burial Aisle in Edzell old churchyard, its great round arch closed by a grille, among old gravestones and table tombs. Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lyndsey_Vault,_Edzell_churchyard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6966874.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.
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