St Salvador's Church, Hilltown, Dundee

• Reference:GB 254 BrMS 18
• Former Reference:GB 254 GD/EC/D/St Salv
• Dates of Creation:1859-2015
• Name of Creator:
  St Salvador’s Church, Hilltown, Dundee
• Physical Description:
  156 items

• Scope and Content

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

• Administrative / Biographical History

  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/)

• Arrangement

  Usually chronological within series.

• Access Information

  Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

• Acquisition Information

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

• Note

  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/)

• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Keren Guthrie August 2016

• Conditions Governing Use

  Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.

• Appraisal Information

  A register of burials 1911-84 and a register of confirmations 1924-83 were withdrawn by the church in 1986.

• Custodial History

  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.

• Accruals

  Possible

• Additional Information

  Published

  Catalogued

  BrMS 18

• Subjects

  Episcopal Church, Scotland