St John the Baptist Church is located in
Perth
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,
Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland and S ...
, Scotland. Of
Scottish Episcopalian
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denomination, it is located on Princes Street, at its junction with Canal Street, in the southeastern corner of the city centre. It adjoins the
Greyfriars Burial Ground
Greyfriars Burial Ground is an historic cemetery in Perth, Scotland, dating to 1580. It is now Category A listed.
It occupies the former location of the Greyfriars Monastery, founded by Laurence Oliphant, 1st Lord Oliphant, in 1496 and destroy ...
on its western side. Completed in 1851, it is now a
Category B listed
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building.
The church's architects were
John Hay
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, William Hardie Hay and James Murdoch Hay, three brothers from
Liverpool
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.
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, made additions in 1914.][
The site on which the church stands was purchased in 1795, on the condition that a place of worship for ]Church of England
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services be its only use. The chapel constructed that year was demolished in 1850 to make way for today's structure.
File:Greyfriars Burial Ground, Perth, Scotland (8924980989).jpg, A 2013 view of the church's eastern elevation from the adjacent Greyfriars Burial Ground
See also
*List of listed buildings in Perth, Scotland
This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Perth, Scotland.
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Category B listed buildings in Perth and Kinross
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1851 establishments in Scotland
Listed buildings in Perth, Scotland
Episcopal church buildings in Scotland