St Andrew’s Church, St Andrews

St Andrew’s Church, St Andrews

St Andrew’s Church was built to replace a smaller Episcopal church (also dedicated to St Andrew) which once stood on North Street. The foundations for the new church were laid in 1867, and the church was consecrated (in other words officially blessed for worship) in 1877. The building was designed by Sir Robert Rowland Anderson, and originally had seating for 600 worshippers. During its early history the grand new church was often referred to as a cathedral. In the 1890s a tower was added to St Andrew’s, but it was felt to be structurally unsound and was demolished shortly before the Second World War. St Andrew’s Church remains an Episcopal place of worship to this day.

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(1) R.G. Cant, ‘Public Buildings of St Andrews, 1790-1914, Churches, Schools and Hospitals’, in Mary Innes and Joan Whelan, eds, Three Decades of Historical Notes: Reprinted from the Yearbooks of the St Andrews Preservation Trust 1964-1989 (St Andrews, 1991), p. 121. (2) Raymond Lamont-Brown, St Andrews: City by the Northern Sea (Edinburgh, 2006), p. 166.

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St Andrew’s Church, St Andrews

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