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Dumbarton

Chapel (17th Century), Hospital (17th Century)

Site Name Dumbarton

Classification Chapel (17th Century), Hospital (17th Century)

Canmore ID 42353

Site Number NS37NE 16

NGR NS 3980 7520

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council West Dunbartonshire
  • Parish Dumbarton
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Dumbarton
  • Former County Dunbartonshire

Archaeology Notes

NS37NE 16 3980 7520

In 1636, a Hospital or bede house was built adjacent to the parish church, by Buchanan of Auchmore. It had a small chapel attached to it, and in 1758 they were entirely demolished and the stones used to build the East Bridge and for other purposes. (Sited to NS 3980 7520 from the above information).

D Macleod 1883; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1897.

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Publication Account (1999)

Adjacent to the church, on the east side, was a hospital with chapel, also visible on the 1747 painting figure 7. Partially built in the early 1630s, it was demolished in 1758. The small building which currently fronts on to High Street, between the church and the main block of the distillery, and the more recent church hall immediately adjacent to the church on the south side, may preserve traces of the post-medieval hospital beneath present floor levels.

Information from ‘Historic Dumbarton: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1999).

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