St Margaret's Parish Church

formerly Restalrig Collegiate Church

Restalrig

off Restalrig Road South

Restalrig Church

St Triduana

This photograph was taken in 2004, looking across the small graveyard towards Restalrig Church in Restalrig Road South.

The small hexagonal building in the foreground is St Triduana's Chapel, built for the Logan family around 1477 and restored in 1906.   It is now in the care of Historic Scotland.   Below the chapel is St Triduana's well-house. 

According to legend, St Triduana was an 8th century Pictish saint who came to Scotland from the eastern Mediterranean, with St Regulas who went on to found St Andrews in the 8th century.

St Triduana is reported to have gouged out her eyes and offered them, on a thorn, to God.  She spent the later part of her life at Restalrig where she is said to have died and been buried.  Her tomb and well at Restalrig became a place of pilgrimage with a reputation for miracles and  healing the blind

Earlier views of the Church

Here are some 19th century pictures of the church:

 1817

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 1890

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Parish Church of Restalrig and Leith

There was an earlier church at Restalrig, built in the 12th century.  Until its destruction in 1560, it was the Parish Church of Restalrig and Leith.  When the church was build, Restalrig was larger than Leith.