Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Mary's Chapel, Rayne
Grid reference
NJ 679 330 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
367900 833000
Latitude
57.3865093337888
Longitude
-2.5340164790510684
Altitude (metres)
180
County
Aberdeenshire
Nearby places
Saint Cloud, settlement Rayne (1.77 miles)
St Thomas's Cha., Culsalmond, Scot. Episc. (1.78 miles)
Lawrence Road, Rayne (1.81 miles)
Lawrence Road, Culsalmond (1.81 miles)
Culsalmond, parish (1.86 miles)
Object Classification
Antiquity
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NMRS: The track of the foundations could still be traced within living memory in 1868. Nearby Chapel Well, a natural spring (NJ682331)
Relationships with other parishes
Within Rayne, parish
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Mary's Chapel
Head name
St Mary's Chapel
Place
St Mary's Chapel, Rayne
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Saints in this place-name
Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (certain)
Mary the Blessed Virgin (certain)
Place-name data
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Satellite map with labels:
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Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
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OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
