Saints in Scottish Place-Names
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant
St John's Church, Duddingston
Grid reference
NT 304 737 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
330400 673700
Latitude
55.95132574419605
Longitude
-3.1146940008108457
Nearby places
St Triduana's Chapel, Restalrig (1.37 miles)
Restalrig, former parish, Edinburgh St Giles (1.37 miles)
Restalrig Collegiate Kirk, Edinburgh St Giles (1.37 miles)
St Mary Magdalene's Hospital, Inveresk (1.45 miles)
Duddingston, former parish, Edinburgh (1.47 miles)
Object Classification
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
Initially an episcoplian church at this site, built in 1825, but taken over as a Catholic Church in 1835. The old building demolished in 1904, and the new building opened in 1906 (St John's Church website).
Relationships with other parishes
Within Duddingston, former parish, Edinburgh (formerly)
OS 6 in 1st edn
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St John's Church
Head name
St John's Church
Place
St John's Church, Duddingston
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
Yes
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
St John's Ch. 1843, OS 6 inch first edn.
Historic formSt John's Ch. Head nameSt John's Church PlaceSt John's Church, Duddingston 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
John (ns) (certain)
John the Apostle or Evangelist (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
