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Latitude: 56.4615 / 56°27'41"N
Longitude: -2.9728 / 2°58'22"W
OS Eastings: 340152
OS Northings: 730357
OS Grid: NO401303
Mapcode National: GBR Z9M.6R
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.9VMC
Plus Code: 9C8VF26G+JV
Entry Name: The Howff, Barrack Street, Dundee
Listing Name: Meadowside and Barrack Street, the Howff
Listing Date: 12 July 1963
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361526
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB25312
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: The Houff
ID on this website: 200361526
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Cemetery
Burial ground established 1564; blind arcading 1601; wall and railings to Meadowside David Neave 1828, gateway to Barrack Street James Black, 1833. High rubble and ashlar sandstone wall to E at Barrack Street, blind arcade (perhaps once open) with sculpted capitals and memorials facing burial ground, roofed burial enclosure to S; piered round-headed gateway with sarcophagus caps and large achievement of arms at parapet, iron gates; 2 capped rusticated gatepiers with iron gates. Low
saddleback-coped ashlar wall to Meadowside curving to Barrack Street, single and paired gates and tall iron railings. S and E boundaries formed by rear elevations of Bank and Reform Streets respectively. Funerary monuments from 16th-19th centuries.
The burial ground was formerly part of the lands of the Greyfriars granted by Mary Queen of Scots to the burgh of Dundee in 1564. The name Howff (meeting place) derives from the fact that the Dundee Incorporated Trades met here until 1776. The collection of funerary monuments is claimed to be second only to those at Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh.
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