In 1380 work began on the building of
St
Mary's and it was completed in 1486.
The building lasted wholly intact just
62 years.
The occupying English army left
everything, except the nave,
derelict
in 1548.
Picture postcard....... date unknown.
St. Mary’s, with St Giles Edinburgh and
St.
Michael’s Linlithgow, is one of the
three great medieval churches
of the Lothian’s.
St. Mary’s is the longest parish church in
Scotland, with Lauderdale Aisle
being
an Episcopal Chapel within a
Church of Scotland building.
