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
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Commenced 1506, completed 1508. Remains of rectangular-plan chapel; flanked by Lamb?s Court to E and Westmost Close to W. In ruins by 1611, acquired for use as graveyard by the Society of Free Fishermen, 1766 and used as such until 1848. Random rubble walls to W and E; long and short bull-faced quoins to openings; iron railings to Main Street boundary.
W WALL: 3 metres high, 86 cm deep; set within E boundary of Westmost Close. Single window to centre; chamfered jambs to outside; heavy stone lintel above; holes for vertical bars. Splayed ingoes to inner face; relieving segmental arch above; no glazing.
E WALL: irregular wall; 86cm depth with projection into Lamb?s Court. 17th century opening of domestic character set in re-entrant angle; droved sandstone reveals; inset iron rails.
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