South Leith Parish Church
South Leith Parish Church, originally the Kirk of Our Lady, St Mary, is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. It is the principal church and congregation in Leith, in Edinburgh. Its kirkyard is the burial place for John Home and John Pew, the man from whom the author Robert Louis Stevenson reputedly derived the character of Blind Pew in the novel Treasure Island. The church has been repaired, used as an ammunition store and reconstructed but still retains the basic layout of the nave of the old church.
The Constitution Street side of the church
The stunning hammerhead timber ceiling of South Leith Parish Church
The history of the church
The 1608 seal
Leith is a port area in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith.
Aerial view of Leith and the Firth of Forth
The Shore, Leith
'Giant's Brae' on Leith Links
Lamb's House in 2009