Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713022

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 74 2651 7290.

(Name: NT 2654 7290) Chapel & Hospital (NR) (site of)

OS 1:1250 plan, (1971)

The Hospital and Chapel of St Leonard formerly stood on the high ground now occupied by the James Clark Technical School. The arrangement of the buildings is unknown, but the hospital appears to have lain to the S of the chapel. Both chapel and hospital belonged to Holyrood Abbey, and it is probable that they took the place of an earlier hermitage (RCAHMS 1951). They were in existence before 1261, and restored and reconstituted in 1493. The chapel is again noted in 1528 and 1650, but how or when its function ended is not know. The chapel walls, then 4' high, were destroyed in 1854, when many skeletons were found both inside and outside the chapel precincts.

RCAHMS 1951; D E Easson 1957.

The James Clark Technical School, on the site of St Leonard's Hospital and Chapel, is centred on NT 2652 7293. No further information.

Visited by OS (J L D) 31 December 1953.