The earliest notice
The earliest notice we have of St. Mary’s Church (South Leith) is in 1490, when Peter Falconer gifted the annual rent of a house in ” the Lees,” the district in and around Yard-heads School and Henderson Gardens, for the maintenance of the chaplain of St. Peter’s Altar in the new Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Leith. A few years later, in 1499, Gilbert Edmonston similarly endowed the Altar of St. Barbara.
Source-The Story of Leith
