Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
St Paul's Church, Montrose
Grid reference
NO 711 574 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
371100 757400
Latitude
56.70753938543928
Longitude
-2.4720880853559217
County
Angus
Nearby places
Church of Sts Peter & Paul, Montrose (0.26 miles)
Montrose, parish, aka Salorch (0.26 miles)
St Mary's Chapel, Montrose (episc) (0.33 miles)
St Mary's Priory, Montrose (0.38 miles)
Inchbraoch, island, Montrose (0.39 miles)
Object Classification
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
Originally St Paul's Free Church, now shown as Melville South Church (Church of Scotland).
Relationships with other parishes
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Paul's Church
Head name
St Paul's Church
Place
St Paul's Church, Montrose
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
St Paul's Church 1843, OS 6 inch first edn.
Historic formSt Paul's Church Head nameSt Paul's Church PlaceSt Paul's Church, Montrose Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOS 6 inch first edn. Date of citation1843 x 1882 Notes on the context of this place-nameMid to late 19th c. |
Source code
OS 6 inch first edn.
Source title
Ordnance Survey 6 Inch to the Mile, First Edition
Notes
Mid to late 19th c.
Saints in this place-name
Paul (ns) (certain)
Paul, apostle (certain)
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Map Layers
The map interface was produced using the Leaflet.js library. Attribution for the base layers is as follows:
Default map:
Tiles © Esri — Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, TomTom, Intermap, iPC, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), and the GIS User Community
Satellite map:
Tiles © Esri — Source: Esri, i-cubed, USDA, USGS, AEX, GeoEye, Getmapping, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, UPR-EGP, and the GIS User Community
Satellite map with labels:
Base map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox
Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
