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St John the Baptist Church is located in
Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
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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
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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
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building. The church's architects were
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, William Hardie Hay and James Murdoch Hay, three brothers from
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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
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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


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List of listed buildings in Perth, Scotland This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Perth, Scotland. List :''All entries, addresses and coordinates are based on data froHistoric Scotland This data falls under thOpen Government Licence' ...


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint John's Scottish Episcopalian Church Perth Category B listed buildings in Perth and Kinross Listed churches in Scotland John's Scottish Episcopalian, Saint 1851 establishments in Scotland Listed buildings in Perth, Scotland Episcopal church buildings in Scotland