Site type HOSPITAL
Canmore ID 58359
Site Number NT73NW 11
NGR NT 7343 3578
Council SCOTTISH BORDERS, THE
Parish EDNAM
Former Region BORDERS
Former District ROXBURGH
Former County ROXBURGHSHIRE

View this site on a map

---

Accessing Scotland's Past

Twelfth century records indicate that there was once a hospital at Ednam. It may have stood about 1.5km south of the modern village, but no archaeological work has been carried out on the site, and no remains are visible above ground.

The hospital was founded before 1178, when a donation from the Countess of Northumberland and Huntingdon was recorded. Later patrons of the hospital included the Edmonstones of Ednam, whose payments to the hospital were recorded in 1426 and 1437.

A source dating from 1542 recorded that the English burnt the hospital during an incursion over the border. As records continue to mention it until 1649, the hospital cannot have been completely destroyed until at least the late seventeenth century.


Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project at http://www.accessingscotlandspast.org.uk

---

Archaeological Notes

NT73NW 11 7343 3578.

(NT 7343 3578) St Leonard's Hospital (NR) (Site of) St. Leonard's
OS 6"map, (1938).

Hospital (Site): No structural remains survive.
RCAHMS 1956.

Notes and Activities

8 March 2010 to 12 March 2010

GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY

Notes NT 7333 3572 A geophysical survey was undertaken 8–12
March 2010 of a proposed cemetery development area at
land S of Ferneyhill Toll. The survey of 40% of the proposed
development area was followed by test pitting in areas where
geophysical anomalies had been encountered. Three linear
features and two possible structures were recorded during
the survey, but it could not be ascertained if these features
related to the medieval hospital of St Leonards, or the postmedieval
farmstead of Spittal, which documentary and
cartographic records indicate formerly occupied this site.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended)
Funder: Scottish Borders Council

Further details

Books and References

Cachart, Hall and Middleton, R, D W and M (1999) Gazetteer of medieval hospital sites in Scottish Borders and Fife Council areas, [S.l.]
Page(s): 9-10 Held at RCAHMS E.13.1.CAT

Cowan and Easson, I B and D E (1976) 'Medieval religious houses, Scotland: with an appendix on the houses in the Isle of Man', London
Page(s): 178 Held at RCAHMS C.3.2.COW

RCAHMS (1956) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Roxburghshire: with the fourteenth report of the Commission, 2v Edinburgh
Page(s): 134, No.227 Held at RCAHMS A.1.1.INV/14

Showing 3 from 4 ...show more