Archaeology Notes

Event ID 701971

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56SE 23 5914 6445 and 5904 6433.

St Ninian's Hospital, which stood at the S end of what is now Victoria Bridge (at NS 5914 6445 on Renwick's plan) is said to have been founded about 1359, but probably the foundation took place in the following century. The earliest records mention lepers in the hospital in 1485. In 1494, William Stewart, canon of Killearn, mentions St Ninian's Chapel "constructed by him and built anew" at this hospital (NS 59044 6433 on Renwick's plan). Another charter, of 1491, refers to this chapel as newly built. The hospital was granted to the city in 1636.

R Renwick 1912; I B Cowan and D E Easson 1976.