Hope Park Church, St Andrews

Hope Park Church, St Andrews

Hope Park was built in the 1860s for the United Presbyterians, who had previously been worshipping in a house on North Street. The church was designed by the architects Peddie and Kinnear. The new church was originally towards the western edge of St Andrews, as at that time the housing along Doubledykes Road and Hepburn Gardens had not yet been constructed. Like several other churches in St Andrews, Hope Park was affected by the varying realignments of Scottish Protestants during the early twentieth century. In 1900 the United Presbyterians became the United Free Church of Scotland, which in 1929 then rejoined the Church of Scotland. During the early twenty-first century the congregation of Hope Park joined with Martyrs’ Kirk (a Church of Scotland congregation which was formerly based on North Street). The church is now known as Hope Park and Martyrs.

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(1) Raymond Lamont-Brown, St Andrews: City by the Northern Sea (Edinburgh, 2006), p. 167. (2) Places of Worship in Scotland, Hope Park and Martyrs Church: http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/4720/name/Hope+Park+and+Martyrs+Church+St+Andrews+and+St+Leonards+Fife [Accessed 7 May 2021].

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Hope Park Church, St Andrews

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Church of Scotland,Free Church,United Presbyterian