St Leonard's, Edinburgh

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St Leonard's is a neighbourhood of south-central Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Once notable as a centre of industry, it is now primarily residential.

Dalkeith Road at St Leonard's, looking north

The remains of St Leonard's Hospital as they appeared in the mid-19th century

Hermits and Termits: a surviving 18th-century house in St Leonard's

Buildings of St Leonard's station and goods yard, opened in 1831 and closed in 1968

St Leonard's Hospital, Edinburgh

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The Hospital of St Leonard was a mediaeval hospital in the St Leonard's area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to which it gave its name. Founded by David I, it existed until some time after the Scottish Reformation.

The ruins of the chapel in 1854

15th-century German miniature of Saint Leonard: a popular dedicatee of religious institutes in mediaeval Scotland

Holyrood Abbey: St Leonard's Hospital was granted to the abbey by David II; in 1493, Robert Bellenden, abbot of Holyrood, refounded the hospital

The former James Clark Technical school, constructed in 1913 on the site of St Leonard's Hospital