Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Mary's Chapel, Pittenweem
Grid reference
NO 548 026 (assumed location)
Six-figure easting & northing
354800 702600
Latitude
56.21390432265088
Longitude
-2.7288411967709463
County
Fife
Nearby places
Marygate, Pittenweem (0.06 miles)
St John's Episcopal Church, Pittenweem (0.06 miles)
St Fillan's Well, Pittenweem (0.09 miles)
Pittenweem, modern parish (0.09 miles)
St Fillan's Cave, Pittenweem (0.09 miles)
Object Classification
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The location of the chapel is inferred from its description in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century: 'a Chappel dedicated to the Virgin Mary from which that street going to the East Port is called the Mary Gate' (Geog. Coll. iii, 219).
Relationships with other parishes
Within Anstruther Wester, parish (formerly)
Within Pittenweem, modern parish
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Mary's Chapel
Head name
St Mary's Chapel
Place
St Mary's Chapel, Pittenweem
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Hypothetical
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:
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OS 1840-1880 map:
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OS 1920-1933 map:
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