Pentland, former parish, Lasswade

Grid reference

NT 262 663 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

326200 666300

Latitude

55.884217751817125

Longitude

-3.1799231605813145

County

Midlothian

Nearby places

St Margaret's Well, Lasswade (0.06 miles)

St Catherine's Well, Liberton (1.42 miles)

St Catherine's Chapel, Liberton (1.44 miles)

Liberton, parish (2.09 miles)

Roslin, former parish, Lasswade (2.16 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (non-extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

NGR for the site of old kirk, where two fourteenth-century graveslabs were found on stripping some turf from one of two mounds. See NMRS for fuller details.

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/

Relationships with other parishes

Within Lasswade, parish

Parish details

Pentland now in Lasswade LAS

Parish TLA

PLX

Medieval diocese

St Andrews

Parish notes

A free parsonage in Bagimond, the church is not to be confused with the chapel of Pentland, which appears in various grants to Holyrood and is rather to be identified with St Catherine’s in the Hopes q.v. (Bag. 56; Holyrood Liber nos. 59, 76-7). The church continued as an independent parsonage until 1477, when on the erection of the collegiate church of Roslin at the instance of William earl of Orkney and Caithness, it was conceded that the church should be united to the college on the death of the then parson, and its fruits distributed amongst the canons (Rot. Scot. i, 25; RS, 747, 75-6). See also Midl. Chrs. xcviii & Cowan 1967, 163 for more details and refs..