Medieval chapel and burial ground.


The Manx Archaeological Survey (1918) states that a chapel and burial ground once stood at this location. The Survey notes that the chapel was standing in the 16th century as it was marked on Durham's map of 1595. A landscape drawing by Daniel King, completed in the 1650s, shows a chapel in the correct location, together with the annotation 'The Chappell'. The site of the 'ruins and ground whereon the Old Chapel did stand' was sold by the Church in 1708 when the new chapel (St Matthew's Church at SC 38217531, itself demolished in 1898) was built. A 19th century plan of Douglas (Taggart, 1834) marks a St Martin's Lane in the area. The Survey further notes that lintel graves were found close to the site of the cattle market towards the very end of the 19th century.


These observations tend to place the site in the vicinity of the former Douglas Corporation electricity works, and the presence of lintel graves suggests burial activity dating to the medieval period.