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Dundee, 57 Blackscroft, St Roque's Episcopal Church

Church (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Dundee, 57 Blackscroft, St Roque's Episcopal Church

Classification Church (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) 26 Foundry Lane; St Roque's Mission Church

Canmore ID 186073

Site Number NO43SW 402

NGR NO 4088 3074

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dundee, City Of
  • Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District City Of Dundee
  • Former County Angus

Architecture Notes

NMRS REFERENCE

Architect: Major Thomas Martin Cappon 1899

Activities

Publication Account (1988)

St Roque's Chapel probably stood outside the town on the east side of the Dens Burn, on the lands of Wallace Craigie near to the locality of 'Semirookie' or St Roque's Lane. Since Wallace Craigie belonged to the Scrymgeours, it is possible that they founded and endowed the chapel.1 St Roque, or St Roche, being believed to protect those suffering from plague, and the chapel being sited near to the temporary lodgings erected for those afflicted by the plague, the churchyard was probably used as the burial-ground for plague victims.

NOTES

1. Maxwell, 1891, 53.

Information from ‘Historic Dundee: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1988).

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