Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
St Mary's Chapel, Polmont, Grangemouth
Grid reference
NS 936 792 (general (5km))
Six-figure easting & northing
293600 679200
Latitude
55.99398753488847
Longitude
-3.7060028849038593
County
Stirlingshire
Nearby places
Grangemouth, modern parish, aka Polmont (0 miles)
Muiravonside, modern parish (1.85 miles)
Lady's Mill, Falkirk (2.67 miles)
Bo'ness, former parish, aka Kinneil, BCN (2.84 miles)
St Morgan's Seat, Muiravonside (2.98 miles)
Object Classification
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The NGR given above, as a vague indication of the site of the chapel, is that of the modern parish kirk. There is, however, no evidence that the kirk was built on or near the site of the medieval chapel founded in 1498. The location of the chapel is unknown.
Relationships with other parishes
Within Falkirk, parish (formerly)
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Capella Beatae Virginis Mariae
Head name
Capella Beatae Virginis Mariae
Place
St Mary's Chapel, Polmont, Grangemouth
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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
Capelle Beate Virginis Marie 1498, RMS
Historic formCapelle Beate Virginis Marie Head nameCapella Beatae Virginis Mariae PlaceSt Mary's Chapel, Polmont, Grangemouth Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRMS, ii no. 2441 Date of citation1498 x 1498 Feature named in sourcechapel Notes on the context of this place-nameReprinted 1984 |
Associated person or bodyHolyrood Abbey Certainty of identity of person or bodyCertain |
Source code
RMS
Source title
Registrum Magni Sigilli (Register of the Great Seal)
Editors
J.M.Thomson et al.
Volume
1-11
Year
1882-1914
Notes
Reprinted 1984
Saints in this place-name
Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (certain)
Mary the Blessed Virgin (certain)
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Map Layers
The map interface was produced using the Leaflet.js library. Attribution for the base layers is as follows:
Default map:
Tiles © Esri — Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, TomTom, Intermap, iPC, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), and the GIS User Community
Satellite map:
Tiles © Esri — Source: Esri, i-cubed, USDA, USGS, AEX, GeoEye, Getmapping, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, UPR-EGP, and the GIS User Community
Satellite map with labels:
Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox
Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
