Chapel, Hope Street, Inverkeithing

Chapel, Hope Street, Inverkeithing

The chapel of Inverkeithing is first mentioned in the 1150s when it belonged to Abbey of Dunfermline. While it has been suggested that this chapel later became the parish church, the source notes that it was located outside of the burgh, so it is likely to have been a different building, possibly related to a hospital that was found close to the west port of the burgh. It was last mentioned in the 1220s and seems to have disappeared sometime thereafter. Inverkeithing was a key station on the pilgrim road to St Andrews and Dunfermline, and the chapel, and hospital, both located close to the west port of the burgh, were probably intended to serve the needs of pilgrims.

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(1) John Spottiswoode, Liber S. Mari de Dryburgh, (Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1847), no. 250, (2) William Stephen, History of Inverkeithing and Rosyth (Aberdeen, 1921), p. 25.

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Chapel, Hope Street, Inverkeithing

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