St Leonard's Parish Church, Donaldson Gardens, St Andrews

St Leonard's Parish Church, built in 1903, is a Romanesque-style church designed by Peter MacGregor Chalmers. A hall was added in 1938 by Mills & Shepherd, with further alterations in 1966 and 2002 by Walker & Pride. The church is located on the corner of Hepburn and Donaldson Gardens in St Andrews and is characterized by its dominant three-stage tower.

The church is constructed of squared and coursed sandstone, with colonnetted reveals to the round-arched openings. It features a base course and a moulded cill course. The south-east elevation (Hepburn Gardens) showcases the central tower with a tall, narrow round-headed bell opening on the second stage. A corbel course separates the pitched roof from the crowstepped top stage. To the right, a recessed gabled nave has a tall stained glass window flanked by niches, and a further gabled bay lies to the left.

The north-east elevation (Donaldson Gardens) is asymmetrical, with eight bays. An advanced gabled porch features a round-headed entrance with chevron detailing and engaged columns, housing a pair of timber doors. Stained glass windows are distributed irregularly, including a blind window, and a recessed curved apse wall. A further recessed entrance provides access to the 1938 hall extension.

Most windows have small leaded panes, and a boarded timber door is present. Cast-iron rainwater goods are visible, including a hopper dated 1903 on the south-east elevation. The roof is covered with graded grey Caithness slates. Ashlar-coped skewes feature beaked skewputts. Small carved stone cross finials adorn the nave gables.

The interior follows a simple Romanesque scheme with distinctive angled droved finish to the masonry. The nave has a Kingpost roof supported by carved stone corbels and a simpler Kingpost construction to the side aisle. A five-bay round-arched arcade is separated by circular ashlar columns with finely carved capitals. A semi-circular apse is flanked by engaged columns. The square oak pulpit, communion table, and prayer stalls display Romanesque details and Celtic interlace design, alongside blind arcading. An octagonal white marble font stands alongside plain oak pews with carved Celtic designs. Stained glass windows include a 1914-18 War Memorial by Alexander Walker, along with works by Margaret Chilton, Herbert Hendrie, Henry Holiday and Marjorie Kemp.

Low coped stone boundary walls extend to the south and east, punctuated by low gabled gatepiers with carved crosses at the eastern entrance. Additional piers mark entrances to the left and south.