Site Represents a site. Prim Media 478 Denomination Catholic Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building End Date 1560 Parish Wemyss 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 St Mary’s Chapel, West Wemyss 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 228 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.139428693863266,-3.0974435801908844; Description An account of the resource St Mary’s Chapel in West Wemyss was connected to the parish church in East Wemyss, as a dispute of 1527-28 noted that offerings at the chapel should be paid to the patrons of that church. No record survives of when the chapel was constructed, although there is an interesting, but unlikely, local legend that it was founded by Spaniards fleeing the Inquisition in the late fifteenth century. The purpose of the chapel is also unclear from the surviving documents. It may have been a private place of worship belonging to the Wemyss family as it is located in the gardens of the castle and seems to have been under their patronage. However, it was also connected to the parish church, so it may have been an early chapel-at-ease for the villagers of West Wemyss. The chapel was abandoned at the Reformation, before being converted into a four-storey house by David, 1st earl of Wemyss in the 1620s. Some ruins of the house still survive. 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). 15/11/2021 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. 1. William Fraser, Memorials of the family of Wemyss of Wemyss (Edinburgh, 1988), 2. ‘Wemyss Chapel Gardens’, Places of Worship in Scotland, Accessed 29 October, 2021, http://scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/4629/image/13165/name/Wemyss+Chapel+Gardens+Wemyss+Fife Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Medieval Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 10/05/2023 11:39:28 am Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. St Mary’s Chapel, West Wemyss Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT