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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of ST NINIAN'S CHAPEL Site of St [Saint] Ninian's Chapel
Site of St [Saint] Ninian's Chapel
Mr Laing (Librarian)
Wilson's Memoirs of Edinburgh
[Situation] Near N W. [North West] corner of Regent Bridge.
The site of this Chapel is [now] on the Northwest Corner of the regent bridge, and long before the chapel was demolished which was about the Commencement of 1815, It was in a ruinous Condition, An accurate description of this Chapel may be found in Wilson's Memoirs - of Edinburgh. Mr Laing Signet, Librarian states that the Chapel stood on the spot already mentioned

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[Page] 70
Parish of the city of Edinburgh.

[Notes]
Not written on the Plan

"Chapel of St. Ninian. This was situated to the south-east
of the present Register office. The date of its foundation
is unKnown.
Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Edinburgh 1845
Page 657

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 30
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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