Free Presbyterian Church, Perth

Perth Free Presbyterian Church is located in Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Standing on Pomarium Street, in the southwestern corner of the city centre, it was completed in 1939. It is now a Category C listed building. The church was designed by local architect William Erskine Thomson. A "distinctive, little-altered, well-detailed church," it is notable for its crowstepped gables and steep pedimented dormerheads. The church and adjoining flat were originally built as a hall and caretaker's flat for the Forteviot Charitable Trust in what was then a run-down area of Perth.

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Perth bus station

Perth bus station is located on Leonard Street in Perth, Scotland. It is owned by Perth and Kinross Council and is situated approximately 800 metres from the city centre, and 100 metres from Perth railway station. The station is mostly used for out-of-town routes, while routes in and around Perth originate and terminate on Mill Street.

St Leonard's Church, Perth

St Leonard's Church is a former parish church building located in Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Standing on King Street, at the head of Charterhouse Lane, it was completed in 1836. It is now a Category B listed building. The church was designed by local architect William Macdonald Mackenzie. James Smart made additions to the building in 1891, including the apse to the west which includes colourful high Victorian stained glass.

King James VI Hospital

King James VI Hospital is an historic building in Perth, Scotland. Located on Hospital Street, it is a Category A listed building, built in 1750. It stands on the former site of Perth Priory (1429), which was burned in 1559 during the Reformation. Of the Priory buildings, said to be "of wondrous cost and greatness," nothing survives above ground. Excavations have failed to identify the exact location. The name Pomarium Street, for modern housing near the site of the medieval buildings, recalls the site of the house's orchard, which seems to have survived into the 18th century. An H-shaped building, four storeys high, it is finished in greywash harled rubble "with raised ashlar margins and quoins at angles". The central block is topped by an octagonal belfry believed to have been taken from Nairne House, in Bankfoot, which was demolished in 1748 after being forfeited during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. The building was funded by royal endowment and public subscription, and it served several functions, including being an almshouse, an industrial school and an infirmary, as well as being a reformatory for delinquents. The building was shaped in an "H" to maximise the supervision of its occupants by a minimal amount of staff. In 1814, most of the building was rented out for other uses, and in 1838, a separate infirmary was built 500 feet to the west, on York Place (now occupied by A. K. Bell Library). The building was renovated and restored in 1976 and has 21 residential flats within its modified interior. The hospital boardroom was maintained.

New County Hotel fire

On 2 January 2023, a fire broke out at New County Hotel in Perth, Scotland. It killed three people and one dog, and injured eleven other people.