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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 701344
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/701344
NS37NE 15.00 39769 75186
Riverside Parish Church [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, October 2009.
NS37NE 15.01 NS 39729 75191 Churchyard
For (associated) Napier Mausoleum (NS 39801 75188), see NS37NE 181.
See also NS37NE 18.
(NS 3975 7521) The original parish church of Dumbarton is mentioned from the 12th to 14th centuries (G Chalmers 1890), and appears to have been dedicated to St Patrick (Orig Paroch Scot 1850).
It appears to have been rebuilt at least three times. The original church was destroyed towards the end of the 16th century, when it was again rebuilt. The foundations of the old church, and of the pre-Reformation church have been discovered while excavating within the present church built in 1811 on the original site at the south end of High Street.
Orig Paroch Scot 1850; D Macleod 1877; G Chalmers 1890; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1897.
