Colinton, St Cuthbert's Church
Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Church (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Colinton, St Cuthbert's Church
Classification Burial Ground (Period Unassigned), Church (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Hailes House
Canmore ID 51794
Site Number NT26NW 6
NGR NT 211 695
NGR Description NT c. 211 695
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/51794
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT26NW 6 c. 211 695
The site of an early Colinton church has been concluded to lie in a field E of Hailes House. (NT 211 695) where human bones were dug up in the 18th c when digging the foundations of a pigeon house.
W Lockhart 1883
St Cuthberts' Church and parish of Halis or Hailes, was founded c.1095 by Ethelred, Earl of Fife. It belonged to Dunfermline Abbey. A church dedicated by David de Bernham in 1248 was probably destroyed during the English invasion of 1544-5 (see also NT26NW 2).
H Scott 1915; I B Cowan 1967
INVENTORY OF GRAVEYARD AND CEMETERY SITES IN SCOTLAND REFERENCE:
Address: St Cuthbert's Church, Colinton, Edinburgh
Postcode: N/a
Status: No longer extant
Size: N/a
TOIDs:
Number of gravestones: Not known
Earliest gravestone: Not known
Most recent gravestone: Not known
Description: Burial ground associated with a church, no longer extant
Data Sources: OS MasterMap checked 20 September 2005