Old travel Blog photograph of St Leonard's Parish Church in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The parish of St Leonards in St Andrews has a long history and had an association with the town's University that went back to the sixteenth century. This was ended by a unilateral decision of the university in 1898, and the minister, the Reverend R.W.Wallace, embarked on raising the money to acquire a site and employ the architect, P. MacGregor Chalmers to build a new church, independant from the University. A site was acquired in a newly developed residential area in the west part of the town, and the church was built between 1904-6. Because of the restricted area available for the building, it was constructed on a north south axis.
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