What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Broxburn, West Main Street, St John Cantius and St Nicholas Roman Catholic Church, Shrine as Shrine (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
The shrine at St John Cantius and St Nicholas Roman Catholic Church in Broxburn is linked to Catholic devotional practices introduced or reinforced during the 19th-century revival of Scottish Catholicism. While no specific local saint or cure is prominently recorded, such shrines often became sites of private prayer and pilgrimage, reflecting broader Catholic traditions of veneration and intercession.
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