Old St Paul’s Church

📌 Old Town, City of Edinburgh
★★

City churches are often havens of quiet in the heart of busy places, but perhaps none more so than the Episcopalian congregation of Old St Paul’s, Edinburgh. Whenever we’ve visited (outwith service times), the church has been still and dark – even in the middle of the day – sometimes with the strong smell of incense hanging in the air. Although a large building in itself, the 19th century building appears squashed in between two larger blocks, adding to the hidden-away feel. The nearest well-known landmark is the chaos of Edinburgh’s main railway station – but other than physically, they couldn’t be further apart.