Publication Account

Date 1982

Event ID 1018222

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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In addition to the parish church Perth had a number of chapels. A chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin at the castle was damaged in the great flood of 1209, and seems to have been rebuilt at some distance from the river (Marshall., 1816, 381). A chapel dedicated to St. Anne had a hospital associated with it as did a chapel dedicated to St. Katherine (Marshall, 1856, 383). The chapel of the hospital of St. Leonard was mentioned in a papal bull of 1184 and the hospital in 1227 (Cowan and Easson, 1976, 187). Two other hospitals and chapels dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene and St. Paul were founded for the reception of the poor (Cowan, 1976, 187-8).

Information from ‘Historic Perth: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1982).