Greyfriars Church, Dumfries
Greyfriars Church, Dumfries, is a Category A listed building in Dumfries, in southwest Scotland. The current Greyfriars Church building was built from 1866 to 1868 in the Victorian Gothic style, designed by architect John Starforth.Photo: MSDMSD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: church in Dumfries
- Also known as: “Dumfries, Church Crescent, Greyfriars Church”, “Greyfriars Church”, “Greyfriars Kirk”, and “St Bride’s Anglican Church (former Greyfriars‘ Church), Church Crescent, Dumfries”
- Address: Dumfries, DG1 1DF
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dumfries Academy and Devorgilla Bridge.
Dumfries Academy
School
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Dumfries Academy is one of four secondary schools in Dumfries in south west Scotland. It is a state funded secondary Co-ed school. The schools moto is "doctrina promovet" which translates from Latin to "learning promotes" which the school emphases within their "vision, values and aims". Dumfries Academy is situated 630 feet northeast of Greyfriars Church, Dumfries.
Devorgilla Bridge
Bridge
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Devorgilla Bridge is situated 1,100 feet southwest of Greyfriars Church, Dumfries.
Dumfries Museum
Museum
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Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, located in Dumfries in Dumfries & Galloway, is the largest museum in the region. The museum has extensive collections relating to local and history from the pre-historic era. Dumfries Museum is situated 1,900 feet south of Greyfriars Church, Dumfries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dumfries and Maxwelltown.
Dumfries
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Dumfries is the principal town of Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland. It's a pleasant market town, with a population of 46,500 in 2020. Robert Burns the poet spent his last years here: from 1788 to 1791 at Ellisland Farm 7 miles north, then in Dumfries town until his death, aged 37.
Maxwelltown
Suburb
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Maxwelltown was formerly a burgh of barony and police burgh and by the time of the burgh's abolition in 1929 it was the most populous burgh in the county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.
Troqueer
Suburb
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Troqueer is a former village and a parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway on the west side of the River Nith. The eastern-side was merged with Dumfries to the east in 1929, and today eastern Troqueer is a suburb of Dumfries.
Greyfriars Church, Dumfries
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.07039° or 55° 4′ 13″ northLongitude
-3.61264° or 3° 36′ 46″ westOpen location code
9C7R39CP+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 5590735250OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q17570292
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In Other Languages
From German to Western Frisian—“Greyfriars Church, Dumfries” goes by many names.
- German: “Greyfriars Church (Dumfries)”
- German: “Greyfriars Church”
- Western Frisian: “Greyfriars Kirk”
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Highlights include Burns Statue and St. George’s Church.
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