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This is the war memorial inside Holy Trinity Church in St Andrews.
It lists those local to St Andrews who where killed in action during the First World War.

You can read the names on it if you view it at its orginal size.

My great uncle is listed on here having lost his life on the battle field in 1917.

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Originally founded with a missionary as well as an educational function the chapel is still in use today for sunday services and many a wedding.

This is a shot taken from the front of the chapel looking backwards, it shows the ornate chapel organ which sits up on its own platform above the congregation at the rear of the chapel.

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The interestingly named Butts Wynd in St Andrews. Connecting North Street and The Scores. The clock tower is the steeple of St Salvators Chapel.

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A few days ago I went back into Holy Trinty Church to grab some more shots for their Website (http://www.holyt.co.uk). They’ve asked for a few specific images to put up on their site.

This is the first one I’ve finished processing for them. It shows the pulpit of the church. The organ pipes can also be seen in the back ground.

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A few days ago I posted an HDR of the interior of this little church, thought I’d show you the outside too.

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This is the Altar of St James’ catholic church in St Andrews.

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This is the little square behind Holy Trinity Church in St Andrews.

The square contains the Public Library, straight ahead, (also the public toilets), The Dolls House resturant and tucked away in the corner is the Cafe in the Square, a really cool little cafe where you will find a friendly service and great food, and of course a few of my photos on the walls.

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Holy Trinity is the ‘mother church’ of St. Andrews in the sense that it seems to have come into being about 1144 when the urban settlement here became a fully organised municipality or burgh and continued to be the only church with a general responsibility for the spiritual wellbeing of the town and its associated country district for a prolonged period thereafter. To this day, indeed, it remains the accepted setting for all occasions most deeply affecting the life of the community as a whole.

The first mention of Holy Trinity is as a parish or priest’s district so called, but it can be assumed that the name was derived from a church of this dedication assigned to the Priory by the Bishop of St. Andrews in 1164. Under this arrangement – which applied to most of the parishes of what is usually called ‘the Medieval Scottish Church’ (from about 1100 to 1560) – the ‘cure of souls’ was delegated to a vicar or deputy of the nominal rector, drawing no more that a portion of the teinds ortithes (from the produce of each year) for his maintenance.

St. Leonard’s Parish Church is a member church of the Church of Scotland which is part of the Presbyterian tradition. The Church of St Leonard is in the town of St Andrews, home of golf and Scotland’s oldest University, which is located in the ancient Kingdom of Fife on Scotland’s east coast. The present church of St Leonard was built in 1904, but St Leonard’s congregation has a long history going back 800 years to the end of the 12th century.