St Salvador's Church, Hilltown, Dundee

Registers of baptisms, burials, confirmations, marriages, services and special offertories, congregation and vestry minute book

St Salvador’s church was founded with a school in the Hilltown area of Dundee in 1856 by Bishop Alexander Penrose Forbes and the Reverend James Nicolson, later Dean of Brechin. Its mission was to the many mill workers who lived in the tenements in the area. G F Bodley was commissioned to design the halls and church, and worship started in the upper part of the building to the south designed as the school. The nave of the church followed in 1868 and the chancel in 1874. The whole building was consecrated on Holy Cross day in that year. The church continues the original ministry to the city’s poor, running one of the busiest food banks in the city after Mass on Sundays. (Source: http://s204617846.websitehome.co.uk/)

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Dundee City Archive transferred the records to University of Dundee Archive Services

St Salvador’s church was founded with a school in the Hilltown area of Dundee in 1856 by Bishop Alexander Penrose Forbes and the Reverend James Nicolson, later Dean of Brechin. Its mission was to the many mill workers who lived in the tenements in the area. G F Bodley was commissioned to design the halls and church, and worship started in the upper part of the building to the south designed as the school. The nave of the church followed in 1868 and the chancel in 1874. The whole building was consecrated on Holy Cross day in that year. The church continues the original ministry to the city’s poor, running one of the busiest food banks in the city after Mass on Sundays. (Source: http://s204617846.websitehome.co.uk/)

Description compiled by Keren Guthrie August 2016

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A register of burials 1911-84 and a register of confirmations 1924-83 were withdrawn by the church in 1986.

Rev David Elder deposited the records with Dundee City Archive in 1985. A register of burials 1911-84 and a register of confirmations 1924-83 were withdrawn by the church in 1986.

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