St Peter's Parish Church, Inverkeithing

St Peter's Parish Church, Inverkeithing

The parish church of St Peter is first documented in the twelfth century and by the later middle ages it was a large and impressive building containing eight separate altars dedicated to different saints. An elaborately carved baptismal font dating from c.1400 can still be found in the church. It was hidden at the Reformation and only rediscovered during renovation work in 1806. The west tower was added in the latter part of the fourteenth century, and by the fifteenth century the church had a large nave flanked by aisles on either side. In 1825 a fire swept the building, and the following year the old medieval nave was entirely rebuilt to the designs of James Gillespie Graham. The only part of the medieval church to survive the reconstruction of the 1820s was the tower. Aside from a brief period during the repairs in the early 1800s and in 2006-2007, St Peter’s has remained an active parish church for more than 800 years.

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(1) Cosmo Innes, ed, Registrum de Dunfermelyn (Bannatyne Club, 1842) (2) ‘Notes on Inverkeithing Parish Church’, Inverkeithing Parish Church, Accessed 12 May, 2021, http://www.inverkeithing-parish-church.org.uk/History.html (3) William Stephen, History of Inverkeithing and Rosyth (Aberdeen, 1921)

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St Peter's Parish Church, Inverkeithing

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