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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 713415
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/713415
NT27SE 20 2599 7333.
Collegiate Church of St Mary in the Fields (NR) (Site of)
OS 1/500 plan, (1895)
Existed in 1499 when James IV of Scotland obtained seed from its gardens.
W F Gray 1925; C A Malcolm 1925; Old Edinburgh Club 1928; H M Anderson 1935.
Collegiate Church of St Mary in the Fields: Library and adjoining area of quadrangle of the University cover the position of the church. From early sketches, it appears as a low cruciform building of the 13th century, with west tower. The church belonged to Holyrood Abbey and is on record in c.1275. It was granted collegiate rank before 1511 with a provest, ten prebendaries and two choristers. Its hospital was burned by the English in 1544 and about 1552, the Duke of Chatelherault built a mansion on its site, which later became the library of the old University, and was demolished in 1798...(RCAHMS 1951).
H Arnot 1788; M E C Walcott 1874; H F Kerr 1932; RCAHMS 1951.
(NT 2599 7333) Site as described as above, now occupied by University library.
Visited by OS (J D) 25 December 1953.
