Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Andrew's Parish Church, Glasgow
Grid reference
NS 597 646 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
259700 664600
Latitude
55.85418094420404
Longitude
-4.241555123067729
County
Lanarkshire
Nearby places
Lady's Yard, Glasgow (0.31 miles)
St David's Church, Ramshorn, Glasgow (0.39 miles)
St Enoch Square, Glasgow (0.53 miles)
St Enoch's Church, former chapel, Glasgow (0.53 miles)
St Nicholas's Hospital, Glasgow (0.53 miles)
Object Classification
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
Known as St Andrews in the Square; now the Centre for Scottish Culture.
Relationships with other parishes
Within Glasgow, parish
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Andrew's Church
Head name
St Andrew's Church
Place
St Andrew's Parish Church, Glasgow
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
St Andrew's Church 1793, OSA
Historic formSt Andrew's Church Head nameSt Andrew's Church PlaceSt Andrew's Parish Church, Glasgow Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOSA, vol. 5 p517 Date of citation1793 x 1793 Feature named in sourcechurch |
Source code
OSA
Source title
Old Statistical Account
Saints in this place-name
Andrew (ns) (certain)
Andrew the apostle (certain)
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Map Layers
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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
