St Leonard's Chapel, Kinghorn

Grid reference

NT 230 860 (assumed location)

Six-figure easting & northing

323000 686000

Latitude

56.06069592979404

Longitude

-3.2367057778186097

County

Fife

Nearby places

Burntisland, parish aka Kinghorn Wester (0.31 miles)

Aberdour, parish, ABO Fife (2.32 miles)

St Fillan's Church, Aberdour FIF (2.32 miles)

Bennet's Hill, Kinghorn (2.49 miles)

Inch Marton, aka Ecclesmartin, Aberdour (2.54 miles)

Object Classification

Ecclesiastical

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

The NGR given is for the approximate location indicated by RMS iii no. 760 (1529), where a toft and croft called 'hostilegium' is located 'inter castrum et capellam Sancti Leonardi'. The chapel may have been associated with a hostel or hospice for pilgrims and the poor. The fact that it was beside a croft called 'hostilegium' is suggestive, and in the early thirteenth century Bishop William of St Andrews granted half the teinds of corn due to the church of Kinghorn for the support of the canons of Holyrood and of the poor and pilgrims (presumably in Kinghorn) (Holyrood Lib. no. 47).

Relationships with other parishes

Within Kinghorn (Easter), parish