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South Leith Parish Church

North and South Leith Parish Church, originally the Kirk of Our Lady, St Mary, is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. Prior to the union with the former in 2024, the building was known as South Leith Parish Church.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Church of Scotland
  • Description: church in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Edinburgh, Leith, Kirkgate, South Leith Parish Church”, “North & South Leith Parish Church”, “South Kirk of Leith”, “South Leith Parish Church, Edinburgh”, and “St Mary’s Church, South Leith”
  • Address: Kirkgate, Edinburgh, EH6 6BJ

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Trinity House of Leith and St Mary’s Star of the Sea Church.

Museum
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Trinity House, 99 Kirkgate, is a building in , Edinburgh, Scotland, which was a guild hall, customs house, and centre for maritime administration and poor relief.

Church
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St Mary Star of the Sea Church is a Roman Catholic in , Scotland. It is situated on Constitution Street in the district and staffed by the . is situated 510 feet northeast of South Leith Parish Church.

Museum
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Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy. She was in their service from 1954 to 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893. is situated 3,900 feet north of South Leith Parish Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leith and Pilrig.

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is the historic port of the capital of Scotland, north of city centre on the shore of the Firth of Forth. It's now only a minor port and has lost much of its industry, to be replaced by retail, bistros and cobbled wharves.

Quarter
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is an area of , the capital of . The name probably derives from the long field on which a peel tower stood. There is evidence of a peel tower situated on an area of higher ground above the .

Quarter
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a district of , the capital of . The area centres upon an original village which grew up around a ford on the , on the old boundary between Edinburgh and the port of .

South Leith Parish Church

Latitude
55.97205° or 55° 58′ 19″ north
Longitude
-3.17055° or 3° 10′ 14″ west
Inception
1483
Open location code
9C7RXRCH+RQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 42448043
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­church_of_scotland
Wiki­data ID
Q7567812
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to French—“South Leith Parish Church” goes by many names.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “South Leith Parish Church”. Photo: Kognos, CC BY-SA 4.0.