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Latitude: 56.3959 / 56°23'45"N
Longitude: -3.4281 / 3°25'41"W
OS Eastings: 311942
OS Northings: 723546
OS Grid: NO119235
Mapcode National: GBR 1Z.0XG4
Mapcode Global: WH6QC.9HSN
Plus Code: 9C8R9HWC+9P
Entry Name: St John's Kirk Of Perth, St John's Place, Perth
Listing Name: St John's Kirk, Kirkside, St John's Place, St John Street
Listing Date: 20 May 1965
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384929
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39300
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: St John's Kirk, Perth
ID on this website: 200384929
Location: Perth
County: Perth and Kinross
Town: Perth
Electoral Ward: Perth City Centre
Traditional County: Perthshire
Tagged with: Church building
Cruciform: 5-bay choir with clustered piers, clerestory and
aisles still with original roof-trusses, completed by 1448:
5-bay nave, with octagonal piers, aisled without clerestory,
transepts and NW Halkerston tower (actually NW porch with
upper chamber) late 15th century; central tower with ribbed
and leaded broach spire completed by 1511, 155' high: N.
transept shortened 1823: upper part of Halkerston tower
demolished: general repair and north and south doorways of
choir c.1827, J Gillespie Graham; repairs to choir 1893-4, A
Heiton and A Grainger Heiton. New roof and aisles to nave,
upper part of Halkerston tower rebuilt general restoration
and complete refurnishing, Sir Robert Lorimer, 1926, Bells;
Skelloch, 1400, Curfew; Maghens, 1506. Baptismal basin one of
earliest in Scotland, has mark of David Gilbert, Edinburgh
goldsmith, made between 1590 and 1594. Stained glass: Macnab
window, W Wilson: East Window, titled, "Last Supper and
Crucifixion", Douglas Strachan, circa 1920, 2 windows by
Marjorie Kemp, 1931 and 1933; others by Ballantine, Stephen
Adam, Meikle and Son, H Hendrie and Louis Davis.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Part of A group with
items 157-160, 285, 289-306, 318-320, 327-331.
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