Edinburgh, Blackfriars Street, Chapel

Chapel (18th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, Blackfriars Street, Chapel

Classification Chapel (18th Century)

Canmore ID 52477

Site Number NT27SE 428

NGR NT 2604 7353

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52477

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Edinburgh, Blackfriars Street, Chapel, NT27SE 428, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

View of entrance to Roman Catholic Chapel formerly sited in Blackfriars Wynd before it became Blackfriars Street, with two women in doorway and wheelbarrow and broom in foreground, Edinburgh.
Titled: "Entrance to an Ancient Roman Catholic Chapel in Blackfriars Wynd, in which the Royal French Exiles assembled to worship during their abode at Holyrood Palace."

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Council Edinburgh, City Of
Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
Former Region Lothian
Former District City Of Edinburgh
Former County Midlothian

Archaeology Notes

NT27SE 428 2604 7353

Name: NT 2604 7353. Site of Episcopal Chapel (1722) (NAT)

OS 1:1056 map, 1854.

The English Episcopal Chapel, founded by Lord Chief Baron Smith in 1722, stood at the corner of the Cowgate and Blackfriars Wynd, opposite Cardinal Beaton's House (NT27SE 65). It was a plain building, with no external features of an ecclesiastical character. It was demolished in 1822.

D Wilson 1873; J Grant 1882.

Architecture Notes

Depicted on the coloured 1st edition of the O.S. 1:1056 scale map (Edinburgh and its Environs, 1854, sheet 36).

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