Baldred of Tyninghame

Although the 8th-century date is now generally accepted,[2] due to a passage in the 16th-century Aberdeen Breviary, he has, in the past, often been associated with the 6th-century saint, Kentigern.

[5] However, at times, he preferred to retire from the spiritual government of the Lothian Britons and he selected the Bass Rock as the spot to build himself a small hermitage and associated chapel,[1] although he also sometimes resided in 'St Baldred's Cave' on Seacliff Beach.

[5] Baldred is said to have lived in the diocese of Lindisfarne, and was therefore a Northumbrian,[6] a not improbable association since, at that time, the Lothians were a part of the kingdom of Northumbria.

The Tyninghame body of Saint Baldred was removed to Durham Cathedral, by Alfred Westow, in the early 11th century.

At the Prestonkirk Parish Church there existed, until 1770, when it was damaged by a builder, a statue of the saint much venerated by the local population.

[5] Whitekirk parish church, celebrated in ancient times as a place of pilgrimage, also lays claim to this saint as the scene of his ministry, but A. E. Ritchie finds this doubtful.