St Andrew’s Old Church (North Berwick)

📌 North Berwick, East Lothian
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This ruin on Kirk Ports in North Berwick is the middle of three incarnations of churches named after St Andrew, Scotland’s patron saint. Built in the mid-1600s, the body of the church is still largely intact (though roofless) along with its west tower, and is surrounded by a graveyard containing a monument to Covenanter John Blackadder, who died on the nearby island of Bass Rock after being imprisoned there in the 1680s. His name is given to the 1880s replacement church – St Andrew Blackadder – on St Andrew Street. The forerunner to both these buildings is found near the town harbour: this kirk was destroyed by a 1656 storm, and only the foundations survive today – along with the intact porch which now houses excavated stonework.