FIFE CHURCHES

 

 Elie,   PittenweenCrailSt Monan's,

St AndrewsKinghorn

 

ELIE  PARISH  CHURCH

© Susan Eldridge July 2003

Location:  at the junction of High Street and Park Place in the centre of the town

 

OS map 59:  NO490001

 

Denomination: Church of  Scotland

 

Date:  Built by William Scot of Ardross in 1639, the tower was added in 1726.

The clock on the tower only has three faces as there were no buildings on the north side when it was installed in 1900.

 

 

PITTENWEEN  PARISH  CHURCH

                  © Susan Eldridge July 2003

Location:  At the junction of Cove Wynd and High Street

OS map 59:  NO549025 

Denomination: Church of  Scotland

Date: Built 1588/9, the bell was cast in Sweden in 1633

 

 

 

One of the old table gravestones, the inscription is rather worn.

 

"Here lyeth the corpse of a famous man David Binning skipper and late bailie of this burgh and husband to Agnes Adamson ......departed the

first of Sept 1675 his age 36"

 

CRAIL KIRK of St MARY'S

     © Susan Eldridge July 2003

Location:  In the Main Street

OS map 59:  NO614080

Denomination: Church of  Scotland

Date: Built 1243 and altered in 1517

 

 

The Mort House

the inscription above the door reads:-

 

Erected for security of the dead

ANN:DOM: MDCCCXXVI

 

War graves in the churchyard

 

 

Behind the church in the graveyard there are 27 war graves of

sailors from HMS Jackdaw

 

 

THE AULD KIRK of ST MONANS

         © Susan Eldridge September 2004

Location:  On the Coastal Path at the west end of the town

OS map 59:  NO522014

Denomination: Church of  Scotland

Date: Dating from 1370, restored in 1828 and 1961

 

 

ST ANDREWS CATHEDRAL

 

© Susan Eldridge September 2004

Location:  

OS map 59 NO516167

Denomination: Church of  Scotland

Built: St Rules Church, on the right was built about 1140 and has a tower which is 100 feet high.

The cathedral was started about 1160 as St Rules Church had become too small, it took 150 years to complete and was consecrated in 1318.

Closed: c1559 as a result of the Reformation

 

 

KINGHORN

ST MARY & ST LEONARDS

         © Susan Eldridge August 2005

Location:  Near the harbour

OS map 66  NT272870

Denomination: Church of  Scotland

 

This description is found on one of the many Information boards around the town:

 

"The appearance of many buildings in Kinghorn was altered by the town's development in Victorian times. The Parish church, originally built in 1774 but retaining the "Sailors Aisle" (1609), was reconstructed in 1894, when the existing bell tower was added."

 

The harbour and Kinghorn Church

 

 

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