Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Anne's Church, Dowally, Dunkeld & Dowally
Grid reference
NO 001 480 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
300100 748000
Latitude
56.61332849117459
Longitude
-3.627902755759691
County
Perthshire
Nearby places
Dowally, former parish, Dunkeld & Dowally (0 miles)
St Anne's Well, Dowally, Dunkeld & Dowally (0.06 miles)
St Colme's, settlement Dunkeld & Dowally (0.76 miles)
St Colme's Loch, Dunkeld & Dowally (1.39 miles)
Tobar Louris, Little Dunkeld (1.49 miles)
Object Classification
Antiquity
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
Built in 1550, and described as a "long, narrow, inelegant structure", it became ruinous in 1755, and was repaired only to be replaced in 1818 with a new building almost on the site of the old (NMRS, citing NSA, 1842).
Relationships with other parishes
Within Dowally, former parish, Dunkeld & Dowally (formerly)
Within Dunkeld & Dowally
Relationships with other places
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Ecclesia Sanctae Annae
Head name
Ecclesia Sanctae Annae
Place
St Anne's Church, Dowally, Dunkeld & Dowally
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Hypothetical
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
Saints in this place-name
Anne (ns) (certain)
Anne, mother of Mary (certain)
Place-name data
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Modern OS map:
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OS 1840-1880 map:
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OS 1920-1933 map:
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