View N inside St Triduana's Chapel, Restalrig, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, showing the central pier of the C15th, hexagonal rib- vaulted well house.
View N inside St Triduana's Chapel, Restalrig, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, showing the central pier of the hexagonal, rib- vaulted well house. Built around 1477 on the orders of James III, over the well-shrine of St Triduana (Tredwell), a Pictish saint who sent her eyes to a local prince who had desired her because of their lustrous beauty. Her shrine had been a place of pilgrimage from much earlier times, the water renowned for curing eye complaints. Originally built as two vaulted storeys, the upper chapel & adjoining church were taken down on the orders of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland who declared on 21 December 1560 that: 'as a monument of idolatrie, be raysit and utterlie castin down and destroyed.' The well-house is partly underground, originally the spring water came up to the level of the stone benches around the walls forming a bathing pool. The rib vaulting is supported by wall shafts & a central pier made of clustered shafts & fillets with a foliated capital.
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Location: St Triduana's Chapel, Restalrig, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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