The Church of the Holy Family is a

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located in

Dunblane Dunblane (, gd, Dùn Bhlàthain) is a small town in the council area of Stirling in central Scotland, and inside the historic boundaries of the county of Perthshire. It is a commuter town, with many residents making use of good transport links ...

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History

From 1883 the local Catholic community met in a coach house in the grounds. The priest would travel from the Catholic church at

Doune Doune (; from Scottish Gaelic: ''An Dùn'', meaning 'the fort') is a burgh within Perthshire. The town is administered by Stirling Council. Doune is assigned Falkirk postcodes starting "FK". The village lies within the parish of Kilmadock and mai ...

for mass each Sunday. The church was planned in the early 1930s and the building completed and officially opened on 27 December 1934. It was designed by the Scottish architect

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. It is Romanesque in style with an

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style roof.

Memorial Window

The Dunblane Memorial Window is a set of three

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windows that were erected in memory of those who were killed or injured in the

Dunblane massacre The Dunblane massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, near Stirling, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 pupils and one teacher, and injured 15 others, before killing himself. It remains the deadliest ...

Dunblane Primary School Dunblane (, gd, Dùn Bhlàthain) is a small town in the council area of Stirling (council area), Stirling in central Scotland, and inside the historic boundaries of the county of Perthshire. It is a commuter town, with many residents making use ...

on 13 March 1996.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunblane, Holy Family Roman Catholic churches in Scotland Roman Catholic churches completed in 1934 1883 establishments in Scotland 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom Churches in Stirling (council area)

Church of the Holy Family Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * C ...