Edinburgh, Restalrig Road South, Restalrig church, St. Triduana's well. View from entrance.
SC 498062
Description Edinburgh, Restalrig Road South, Restalrig church, St. Triduana's well. View from entrance.
Date 11/1968
Catalogue Number SC 498062
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 2641
Scope and Content The interior of St Margaret's Well (formerly Restalrig Well), Holyrood Park, Edinburgh St Margaret's Well lies at the foot of Arthur's Seat, set into a grassy bank at the foot of the hill. This late medieval well-house was moved to Holyrood Park from Restalrig in 1855, and rebuilt over an existing spring known as St David's. The interior, similar in plan to the 15th-century chapel of St Triduana at Restalrig, is a small hexagonal room with a pretty rib-vault carried on a round central column. The water escapes through a spout in the mouth of a grotesque mask. This well-house, at its original site at Restalrig, may have been the well to which blind pilgrims, attracted in the late Middle Ages by the cult of St Triduana and her reputation for curing eye complaints, flocked from all over the country. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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