Chapel of St James, North Queensferry

Chapel of St James, North Queensferry

The chapel of St James first enters the documentary record in the early fourteenth century, but it was likely to have been founded sometime in the late twelfth or thirteenth centuries. It was a key station on probably the most important and well used of routes by which pilgrims approached St Andrews and Dunfermline. Most pilgrims from the south would have taken the ferry across the Forth and then stopped to give thanks for safe passage at the chapel. By the later middle ages, it was served by two chaplains who tended to the needs of pilgrims. Following the Reformation, the chapel fell out of use, before sometime in the early eighteenth century the interior of the chapel began to be used as a cemetery by mariners from the North Queensferry Sailors' Society.

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(1) A. A. M Duncan, eds, Regesta Regum Scottorum V : The Acts of Robert I, 1306-29 (Edinburgh, 1986), no. 413 (2) E. Patricia Dennison & Russel Coleman, Historic North Queensferry and peninsula (East Linton, 2000)

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Chapel of St James, North Queensferry

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