Current Projects

Kilbride Chapel

Kilbride or St Brides Lamlash is the ruin of a pre-reformation chapel looking over Lamlash Bay and the Holy Isle.  The chapel is surrounded by a tightly packed burial ground with a range of memorials spanning 200 years or more.  The detailed history of the site is only now beginning to be unravelled and much more work is needed to establish the age and evolution of the chapel.  The whole site is a scheduled ancient monument and this means that all work must be approved by Historic Scotland. 

SBPT has been working with the Saving St Brides Chapel Arran Group, Archaeology Scotland and North Ayrshire Council who own the site to develop a project to undertake repairs to the chapel and memorials and provide physical and virtual access to the site.  To date a group of volunteers has helped to remove ivy from the building and recording of the memorials and the chapel is under way.  It is hoped to raise funds to support the SSBCA in producing a conservation management plan and interpretation plan for the site as a basis of a future fundraising effort to pay for the capital works.  The SSBCA will also be negotiating a maintenance agreement with North Ayrshire Council to ensure that the site is cared for in future.