Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Bride's Chapel, eccles, Avondale
Grid reference
NS 690 410 (assumed location)
Six-figure easting & northing
269000 641000
Latitude
55.64486506632
Longitude
-4.081764176668803
County
Lanarkshire
Nearby places
St Brides, settlement, Avondale (0.53 miles)
Avondale, parish, aka Strathaven (2.16 miles)
St Anne's Well, Avondale (2.2 miles)
St Oswald's Well, Avondale (2.24 miles)
St Oswald's Chapel, Avondale (2.3 miles)
Object Classification
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR given is for the settlement of St Brides, formerly St Brides Chapel, in whose vicinity we may suppose the chapel to have lain.
Relationships with other parishes
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Capella Sanctae Brigidae
Head name
Capella Sanctae Brigidae
Place
St Bride's Chapel, eccles, Avondale
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
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
Capella sancte Brigide 1229, Kel. Lib.
Historic formCapella sancte Brigide Head nameCapella Sanctae Brigidae PlaceSt Bride's Chapel, eccles, Avondale Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceKel. Lib., p153 no. 186 Date of citation1229 x 1229 Feature named in sourcechapel |
Source code
Kel. Lib.
Source title
Liber S. Marie de Calchou
Series
Bannatyne Club
Volume
2
Year
1846
capella sancte Brigide 1229, Kel. Lib.
Historic formcapella sancte Brigide Head nameCapella Sanctae Brigidae PlaceSt Bride's Chapel, eccles, Avondale Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceKel. Lib., p230 no. 280 Date of citation1229 x 1232 Feature named in sourcechapel |
Source code
Kel. Lib.
Source title
Liber S. Marie de Calchou
Series
Bannatyne Club
Volume
2
Year
1846
Saints in this place-name
Brig, Brigit, Bride (ns) (certain)
Brigit ingen Dubthaig (of Kildare) (certain)
Relationships with other place names
Is source of St Bride's Chapel, St Brides, settlement, Avondale
Is source of St Brides, St Brides, settlement, Avondale
Place-name data
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Modern OS map:
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OS 1840-1880 map:
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OS 1920-1933 map:
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