St. Magdalen's Chapel, Cowgate, Candlemaker Row

Category

Library Item

Item no

39212

Title

St. Magdalen's Chapel, Cowgate, Candlemaker Row

Artist / maker

Murphy, Bernard

Date

2010

Size

10.2 x 15.1 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

St.Magdalene's Chapel (or The Magdalen Chapel) was built in 1544 by Michael MacQueen. The chapel was later bequeathed to the Hammermen, a guild of metalworkers, who then decorated the space with their work. It has the only surviving pre-Reformation stained glass in Scotland left 'in situ'. It is now owned by the Scottish Reformation Society.

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