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Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1097028
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1097028
160. Rude Chapel, Greenside.
This chapel stood on the W. side of the Calton Hill. Its dedication is unknown, and its name might be taken a simplying either that it was near a "rude," or cross, or that it had some connection with Holyrood Abbey. This latter explanation may be preferable, seeing hat in the 16th century, at any rate, the Abbey evidently regarded the chapel as its property (1). It may have been founded in or about 1456, when James 11 gave Greenside to the Town as a playing field; and in 1520 the magistrates gave it to the Carmelites, along with some land for a convent. The infringement of Holyrood's rights that this grant entailed may have been the origin of the bad feeling between the Abbey and the Carmelites that resulted in a raid by the canons on the Carmelites in 1530, in which a house belonging to the latter was forcibly demolished (2). In 1543 the chapel was the scene of a meeting between representatives of the pro-French and pro-English parties, summoned to arrange terms of amnesty for those members of the latter who had gone to England to obtain help against their opponents (3). It is not heard of again after this date.
RCAHMS 1951
(1) B.R., 1557-1571, pp. 166 ff. (2) Acts of the Lords of Council in Public Affairs, p. 325. 3 Letters and Papers (Domestic and Foreign), xix, pt. i, Nos. 24 and 26; pt. ii, No. 709.
