
What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Newhaven, Main Street, Westmost Close, Chapel of St Mary and St James as Chapel (16th Century). 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 and St James, the chapel was historically associated with local Marian devotion and may have been a site of pilgrimage or prayer, particularly for protection and healing. Though no specific cures are recorded, such chapels often served as focal points for community rituals and seasonal observances in Scottish medieval tradition.
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