Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Leonard's Hospital, Edinburgh
Grid reference
NT 265 729 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
326500 672900
Latitude
55.94355790473033
Longitude
-3.1769228379907415
Nearby places
St Leonard's Chapel, Edinburgh Canongate (0 miles)
St Leonard's House, Edinburgh Canongate (0.14 miles)
St Leonard's, Edinburgh (0.14 miles)
St Patrick's Square, Edinburgh (0.26 miles)
St Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh St Giles (0.32 miles)
Object Classification
Other
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NMRS records (Canmore ID 52540) the location of the hospital, its ownershipby Holyrood Abbey, and the likelihood that the hospital and chapel were established on the site of an earlier hermitage. 'The chapel walls, then 4' high, were destroyed in 1854, when many skeletons were found both inside and outside the chapel precincts.'
Relationships with other places
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Leonard's Hospital
Head name
St Leonard's Hospital
Place
St Leonard's Hospital, Edinburgh
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
Leonard (ns) (certain)
Leonard of Noblac (certain)
Relationships with other place names
Is source of St Leonard's, St Leonard's, Edinburgh