St Leonard's-in-the-Fields (officially St Leonard's-in-the-Fields Church and Trinity Church) is a

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church in

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, Scotland. Standing on Marshall Place, at its junction with Scott Street, overlooking the northern end of the

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, it was built between 1882 and 1885, to a design by J. J. Stevenson, and is now a

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building. It is in the Gothic Revival style."Marshall Place, St Leonard's-in-the-fields Church and Halls (Church of Scotland), Including Boundary Wall and Gatepiers"
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Perth photographer

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had a wooden studio on the site between the 1850s and 1884."Magnus Jackson and the Black Art"
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Inside, the semi-octagonal

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was inspired by the 15th-century apse of the

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.''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland''

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(1901) The organ is by Perth native

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's company of

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and dates to 1881. It was built for the former Morningside United Presbyterian Church and moved here in 1985, installed in a modern

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case.

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