Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Mary's Church, Dundee
Grid reference
NO 401 301 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
340100 730100
Latitude
56.45934020427711
Longitude
-2.9721036611549305
County
Angus
Nearby places
St Mary's Well, Dundee (0.09 miles)
St Margaret's Tenement, Dundee (0.09 miles)
St Clement's Toft, Dundee (0.09 miles)
St Clement's Church, Dundee (0.14 miles)
Dundee, parish (0.14 miles)
Object Classification
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NMRS records of this site: Gothic revival church by William Burn, 1841. Built after a fire destroyed the orginal transepts and choir in a huge fire. The decision was made to build from new, rather than reinstate using the remains of the earlier church. RCAHMS (CAJS) 2012.
Relationships with other parishes
Within Dundee, parish
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Mary's Church
Head name
St Mary's Church
Place
St Mary's Church, Dundee
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
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
Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (certain)
Mary the Blessed Virgin (certain)
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
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Satellite map with labels:
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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
