What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Collegiate Church of St Mary in the Fields as Church (13th Century), Hospital (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Linked to St Mary, the site was associated with healing and charity in the medieval period, serving as both a church and hospital. The church was a significant religious and social institution in Edinburgh, though specific cures or rituals connected to its holy well or grounds are not well documented.
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