2012

NS3979 : Former Alexandria Parish Church

taken 11 years ago, near to Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland

Former Alexandria Parish Church
Former Alexandria Parish Church
This picture was taken from Church Street. For a view of the church from the other side, see NS3979 : Former Alexandria Parish Church.

The present photograph also shows the kirkyard (NS3979 : Alexandria Parish Churchyard) and its boundary wall. The structure that is built into the eastern wall is NS3979 : The Smollett Mausoleum.

The houses at the extreme right are on NS3980 : Mitchell Way, Alexandria.
Former Alexandria Parish Church

By December 2022, the building had been demolished after having been severely damaged by fire earlier in the year, as is related in more detail below. It had long been out of ecclesiastical use.

The building dated from 1840. See LinkExternal link (at the Vale of Leven website) for more on the history of this church in relation to others in the area.

The building was first damaged by fire on the evening of 17th of April (Easter Sunday) 2022. Despite the unfavourable timing (a Sunday evening during a prominent holiday), fire services dealt admirably with the situation before much damage was done. However, on the following Saturday evening, the building was the scene of a much worse conflagration.

By way of context, it is worth adding that there was little rainfall in the weeks leading up to these events, and that many grass fires had been maliciously started on nearby moorland.

According to news reports, there had been, before the fires, plans to bring the derelict building back into use, although not as a church. This would have proved expensive; see, e.g., LinkExternal link at (STV News).


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Geographical Context: Religious sites Burial ground, Crematorium Period: 19th Century Former: Church
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Kirkyard [20] · Parish Church [20] Title Clusters: · Former Alexandria Parish Church [3] ·
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NS3979, 205 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Lairich Rig   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 27 November, 2012   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 6 December, 2012
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3912 7995 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:59.1282N 4:34.8238W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3918 7992
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