St Andrew's Ukrainian Catholic Church

St Andrew's Ukrainian Catholic Church

Our Lady of Pochaev and St Andrew's Ukrainian Catholic Church is situated on Dalmeny Street, Leith. It is one of the few Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish churches in Scotland. It is a church in the only Eastern Catholic eparchy in Great Britain, the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family of London.

Building

The sandstone Gothic Revival building was built for the United Presbyterian church in 1882 in a design adapted by Archibald Thomson from an original version by Sloan & Balderston in 1822.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "24 DALMENY STREET, AND BUCHANAN STREET, UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST ANDREW", Historic Scotland/City of Edinburgh Council, HB Number 26716, http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/hsstart?P_HBNUM=26716

Further reading

  • Cannon, James F., Dalmeny Street United Free Church, Leith: A Retrospect (William Blackwood: 1904)
  • Gifford, McWilliam and Walker Edinburgh (1991), p459

Coordinates: 55°57′53″N 3°10′30″W / 55.96472°N 3.17500°W / 55.96472; -3.17500

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