Chapel Of St Mary And St James, Westmost Close, Main Street, Newhaven, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Chapel Of St Mary And St James, Westmost Close, Main Street, Newhaven, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- tattered-chalk-ebony
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel Of St Mary And St James, Westmost Close, Main Street, Newhaven, Edinburgh, EH6 4TD
- OS grid reference
- NT 254 770
- Coordinates
- 55.9805, -3.19584
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Chapel of St Mary and St James, located on Westmost Close off Main Street in Newhaven, Edinburgh, was started in 1506 and completed in 1508. It features the remains of a rectangular-plan chapel, which is flanked by Lamb's Court to the east and Westmost Close to the west. By 1611, the chapel was in ruins and was acquired by the Society of Free Fishermen in 1766 for use as a graveyard, a function it served until 1848.
The west wall stands 3 meters high and is 86 centimeters deep, set within the eastern boundary of Westmost Close. It has a single window in the center with chamfered jambs on the outside and a heavy stone lintel above, including holes for vertical bars. The inner face features splayed ingoes and a relieving segmental arch, but there is no glazing.
The east wall is irregular and also 86 centimeters deep, projecting into Lamb's Court. It contains a 17th-century opening of domestic character located in the re-entrant angle, with droved sandstone reveals and inset iron rails.
Local climate
Chapel Of St Mary And St James, Westmost Close, Main Street, Newhaven, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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