In 1722 certified to Bishop Gastrell as 'an old Chapel about 14 yards long and 7 broad...In a very ruinous condition the roof being gone and slate and timber stolen'. About 8 miles from Grinton parish church. It had never had a burial ground, The Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Eighteenth Century, ed. L.A.S. Butler, Yorks. Arch. Soc., vol. 146 (1990 fror 1986), 120.