An Historic Community

This historic city centre church, now known as St Andrew’s and St George’s, was built in the 1780s as St Andrew’s Church. It was the first centre of Christian worship in Edinburgh’s 18th century New Town. Originally serving a residential district, St Andrew’s and St George’s today also has a significant ministry to the business community that now surrounds it.

The parish of St Andrew's and St George's is wholly within the UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the church building is grade A listed by Historic Scotland.

The Georgian architecture of St Andrew’s and St George’s displays all the classical elegance of late 18th century taste, incorporating motifs inspired by the discoveries then being made in Rome, Pompeii and Palmyra.

The history of St Andrew's and St George's covers more than two centuries of change in the centre of Edinburgh and in the history of the church in Scotland.