Archaeology Notes

Event ID 714188

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 35.11 26943 73958

(not to be confused with NT27SE 35.09)

(Centred NT 2694 7397) Ruins of Chapel Royal AD 1672 (NR).

OS 25"map, (1931).

After the coronation of Charles I at Holyrood Abbey, following its reconstitution as the Chapel Royal, and together with the rising importance of the Palace, the parishioners came to be ousted from the church, and when a new parish church came to be erected in the Canongate the Abbey Church became officially what it had long been in practice, the Chapel Royal.

RCAHMS 1951.

However when a new roof was added in 1768 the structure collapsed and has since remained in ruins.

Archaeol J 1936, 310.

The Nave of the Abbey Church (Midlothian 3NE 35.1) was reconstituted as the Chapel Royal for use of the most Noble Order of the Thistle in 1672. (J S Richardson 1936).

Visited by OS(JLD) 29 December 1953.

Nave or Chapel Royal-as described in Midlothian 35.1. No additional remarks

Visited by OS(JLD) 31 December 1953.