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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 ROQUE'S CHAPEL | Site of St Roque's Chapel Site of St Roque's Chapel Site of St Roque's Chapel |
Mr. Gordon Benjamin Mitchel Chalmers Caledonia vol [volume] 2 page 781 |
[Situation] About 2 1/2 chains NE by E [North East by East] of St. Roque. This is the site of an ancient chapel and grave yard. This chapel was belonging to St. Cuthberts & was apparently of considerable size. There is no trace nor mark of its site to be now seen. Benjamin Mitchel an old man of about 75 years who has lived for the last 27 years as gardener at this place says that Mr. Howden who was proprietor of this place & built the house of St Roque pointed out to him this site of the chapel which is now shown on Plan but the dimensions of the chapel could not point out as it is so long since removed. He (Mitchel) has also dug up human bones in great quantities when cultivating the ground at some small distance westward from the site of the chapel & he says great quantities of bones were dug from the foundation of the house called St. Roques. The notice is from Chalmers Caledonia vol. [volume] 2 P. [Page] 781 "St Roque's Chapel had a cemetery to which leprous persons were sent from Edinburgh during the prevalence of the plague; and in 1532 the magistrates granted to Sir John Young the chaplain four acres in the Borough-moor for keeping in repair the chapel and praying for the souls of those who were buried in its Cemetery. St. Roque's Chapel and its pertinents were converted after the reformation into private property by those men who could deride the piety of their fathers and had little other pretensions to religion than grimace & zeal.“ |
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| Site of GRAVE YARD [St Roque's Chapel] | Site of St Roque's Grave Yard Site of St Roque's Grave Yard |
Mr. Gordon Benjamin Mitchel |
[Situation] About 2 1/2 chains NE by E [North East by East] of St. Roque. This is the site of an ancient chapel and grave yard. This chapel was belonging to St. Cuthberts & was apparently of considerable size. There is no trace nor mark of its site to be now seen. Benjamin Mitchel an old man of about 75 years who has lived for the last 27 years as gardener at this place says that Mr. Howden who was proprietor of this place & built the house of St Roque pointed out to him this site of the chapel which is now shown on Plan but the dimensions of the chapel could not point out as it is so long since removed. He (Mitchel) has also dug up human bones in great quantities when cultivating the ground at some small distance westward from the site of the chapel & he says great quantities of bones were dug from the foundation of the house called St. Roques. The notice is from Chalmers Caledonia vol. [volume] 2 P. [Page] 781 "St Roque's Chapel had a cemetery to which leprous persons were sent from Edinburgh during the prevalence of the plague; and in 1532 the magistrates granted to Sir John Young the chaplain four acres in the Borough-moor for keeping in repair the chapel and praying for the souls of those who were buried in its Cemetery. St. Roque's Chapel and its pertinents were converted after the reformation into private property by those men who could deride the piety of their fathers and had little other pretensions to religion than grimace & zeal.“ |
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[Page] 10Parish of St. Cuthberts
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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1851 - Sheet 47OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056
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