Site Represents a site. Prim Media 161 Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Church/Chapel of St Erat, Inverkeithing Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived sacredlandscapesoffife Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource tt27@st-andrews.ac.uk Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 78 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.03150931275149,-3.39692830995773; Description An account of the resource Local tradition records that Christianity was brought to Inverkeithing in around 500AD by a holy man called St Erat. An ancient well known as Heriot’s or Erat’s, after which nearby Heriot Street is also named, can be found close to the site of the later medieval parish church. The well is first recorded in a charter of 1219, but the earliest firm reference to it as Eriot’s well can only be dated to 1588. A tradition seems to have developed in the late nineteenth century which suggested that Erat was a follower of St Ninian (one of the most popular medieval Scottish saints, whose shrine was at Whithorn in Galloway), and that he arrived in Inverkeithing sometime in the fifth century AD. The well, and a chapel at nearby Fordell, are the only recorded dedications to a saint named Erat or Theriot in Scotland and there are no contemporary documents nor archaeological evidence that confirm the local tradition. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 15/06/2021 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. (1) Cosmo Innes, ed., Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc. Registrum Abbacie de Aberbrothoc (Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1848-56), i, no. 119. (2) James Wilkie, Bygone Fife. From Culross to St Andrews. Traditions, Legends, Folklore and Local History of “The Kingdom” (Edinburgh, 1931), p. 38-39. (3) William Stephen, The Story of Inverkeithing and Rosyth (Edinburgh, 1938), pp. 13-14. Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 06/15/2021 02:49:21 pm Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Church/Chapel of St Erat, Inverkeithing Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT