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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of CHAPEL Site of Chapel
Site of Chapel
Site of Chapel
Mr. J. Johnston Banker
Mr. R. McNab Saddler
Mr. J. Fleming Gardner
009 [Situation] About 21 Chains SE [South East] of the Parish Church.
This was a small stone building, thatched, erected about the time of the Reformation, as a Roman Catholic place of Worship when that body was deprived of the Old Church at Kirkton about 1½ mile S.E. [South East] of Bathgate. The Authorities quoted have seen it standing and inhabitated by an Old Woman and they remember the projections in the wall that supported the Altar as also the Holy Water font
CHAPEL WELL Chapel Well (Covered)
Chapel Well (Covered)
Chapel Well (Covered)
Mr. J. Johnston
Mr. R. McNab
Mr. J. Fleming
009 [Situation] Close to the Site of Chapel.
At the S. [South] end of the buildg. [building] was a fine Spring Well of excellent water with an Old thorn beside it & it was & is still called Chapel Well but it is now covered & ploughed over, there is a small Stream issuing from it which runs winter & summer

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Town of Bathgate -- S. [Sheet] 9. No. 6. T. [Trace] 2

[Note below Chapel Well:]
Chapel Well to be written on plan
in Stump as it cannot with propriety
be written as an antiquity as it does
not appear to have been considered
a holy well.

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