Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Anne's Chapel, Haddington
Grid reference
NT 517 738 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
351700 673800
Latitude
55.95483741789765
Longitude
-2.7736198021124285
Altitude (metres)
45
County
East Lothian
Nearby places
St Martin's Gate, Haddington (0.14 miles)
Haddington, parish (0.14 miles)
St Mary's Church, Haddington (0.14 miles)
St Martin's Church, Haddington (0.2 miles)
St John's Church, Haddington (0.22 miles)
Object Classification
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
'Within the toun near to the East Port there is a great house called Saint Anne's Chappel to which, even unto this day, about fourscore houses within the toun are bound by their charter to pay yearly a small few duty. By an ancient Institution, that House was to have a Chaplain, who was once in the year to sing a Psalm there, which was all the duty he was obliged to perform for his salary, being the few-duties above mentioned' (Geog. Coll. iii, 66) NMRS records (Canmore ID 56508) that the chapel was removed in 1814. The OS Name Book (1853) noted that several people still remembered the old building whose 'lower portion was all arched'. The housing built on the site is still called St Anne's Place (OS Digimap).
Relationships with other parishes
Within Haddington, parish
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Anne's Chapel
Head name
St Anne's Chapel
Place
St Anne's Chapel, Haddington
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The status of this name is
Obsolete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
Saint Anne's Chappel 1680, Geog. Coll. III
Historic formSaint Anne's Chappel Head nameSt Anne's Chapel PlaceSt Anne's Chapel, Haddington Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceGeog. Coll. III, 66 Date of citation1680 x 1690 |
Source code
Geog. Coll. III
Source title
Macfarlane's Geographical Collections
Editors
Arthur Mitchel and James Toshach Clark
Series
Scottish History Society
Year
1908
Saints in this place-name
Anne (ns) (certain)
Anne, mother of Mary (certain)