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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Site of ST NINIAN'S CHAPEL | St Ninian's Chapel St Ninian's Chapel St Ninian's Chapel St Ninian's Chapel |
Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen Turreff's Antiquarian Gleanings P. 3 Fullarton's Gazetteer Vol. 1. Taylor's Map of Aberdeen. 1773 |
075 | Was an ancient religious institution founded within the ramparts of the Castle-hill. The only permanent endowment which it possessed at the Reformation was a tenement in the Shiprow, which had been granted to the chaplain by Robert Blindsele, for services of devotion. In the year 1566, the chapel was repaired, and the east end of it converted into a light-house, for the direction of shipping, during the winter season, and on the top of it was placed the flag staff of the town. There were three great lights kept in it, during the night, from the first day of September to the last day of March. ----- In the year 1642, when the consistorial or commissary court was translated from the consistory in the cathedral, to Aberdeen, the chapel was filled up for the accommodation of that judicatory, which continued to sit there till after the Restoration. The chapel was afterwards (over) |
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