Site Represents a site. Prim Media 416 Denomination Church of Scotland Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Current Place of Worship true Parish St Andrews and St Leonards Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St Leonard’s Church Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived sacredlandscapesoffife Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bess Rhodes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 195 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Description An account of the resource The parish of St Leonard’s has its origins in the Middle Ages. However, the congregation has only worshipped in the current St Leonard’s Church on Hepburn Gardens since the early years of the twentieth century. From 1761 until 1904 the parishioners of St Leonard’s held services in St Salvator’s College Chapel. Their departure from St Salvator’s was surrounded by controversy. In 1898 the University of St Andrews declared a wish for St Salvator’s to be a university chapel and requested the congregation of St Leonard’s to move. Objecting to the change the St Leonard’s congregation took legal proceedings against the university. Eventually it was agreed that land on the outskirts of St Andrews, in what was then known as Rathelpie, should be acquired for St Leonard’s. A new church was built there according to a design by Peter Macgregor Chalmers, and using local sandstone from Nydie. The architecture of St Leonard’s was inspired by the rounded arches and solid appearance of Romanesque buildings. The church has a fine collection of stained glass, much of which was installed in the 1920s and 1930s. Shortly before the Second World War a church hall was built beside the church. Further alterations were made to the church in the 1960s and at the start of the twenty-first century. Today St Leonard’s remains home to an active Church of Scotland congregation. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 05/10/2021 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. (1) Raymond Lamont-Brown, St Andrews: City by the Northern Sea (Edinburgh, 2006), pp. 169-170. (2) Places of Worship in Scotland, St Leonard’s Parish Church, St Andrews: http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/4711/name/St+Leonard%27s+Parish+Church.+St+Andrews+St+Andrews+and+St+Leonards+Fife [Accessed 12 May 2021]. Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.33702440336468,-2.8095281517315267; Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 10/08/2023 09:43:19 am Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1900 Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. St Leonard’s Church Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://stleonardschurchstandrews.com/