Super User Omeka MetsExport Plugin The software used to generate this document is called Omeka MetsExport, which operates as a plugin for Omeka. Documentation can be found at http://github/MetsExport/ ‘Prior Walls’ / Chapel Site by the Sea By the late eighteenth century there was a tradition in Crail that there had once been a medieval priory by the sea, a little to the south of what is now called Prior’s Croft. In reality the name probably arises from the land being owned by the nuns at Haddington Priory. However, there may have been a small chapel in this area in the Middle Ages. In the 1790s it was noted that there stood by the sea ‘a ruin evidently of great antiquity, the east gable of which is still standing’. This ruin bore ‘the name of the prior walls’. The gable (which according to a nineteenth-century writer had ‘Gothic windows’) was washed away by the sea during storms in about 1801. Some foundations remained visible into the 1860s, but by the twentieth century they too had been lost to coastal erosion. Bess Rhodes Site 210 06/10/2021 09/26/2023 02:56:27 pm (1) Andrew Bell, ‘Parish of Crail’ in the Old Statistical Account (1793), vol. 9, pp. 450-451. (2) William Merson, ‘Parish of Crail’ in the New Statistical Account (1845), vol. 9, p. 964. (3) Anne Turner Simpson and Sylvia Stevenson, Historic Crail: The Archaeological Implications of Development (1981), p. 21. cm x cm x cm current,56.260990338256555,-2.62082071056045; Building 446 Catholic Crail ‘Prior Walls’ / Chapel Site by the Sea TEXT