John Fraser (bishop) - Collegiate Church of Restalrig

Collegiate Church of Restalrig

Fraser was the first Dean of the new collegiate church erected on 13 November 1487 at Restalrig in Midlothian. Fraser petitioned the pope for the creation of the collegiate church on 6 May, to be dedicated to the "Holy and Indivisible Trinity" and the Virgin Mary; the church had and was benefiting from the patronage of King James III of Scotland, and the church was called at the time the "King's chapel" or "chapel royal". Fraser founded a chaplainry in the new collegiate church, to which he donated a tenement he had built in the Canongate.