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Reconstruction of the chapter house at St Andrews Cathedral in the late Middle Ages. (Credit: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews)
Reconstruction of St Andrews Cathedral in 1318. The older church of St Rule can be seen on the right. (Credit: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews)
Raised beach platforms, KingcraigOverview of raised beach platforms at Kingcraig near Elie, Fife
Prince Charles Edward Stuart, also known as the Young Pretender. Portrait by Allan Ramsey. (Credit: National Galleries of Scotland / Wikimedia)
Pre-Ref Methil ChurchThe site of the pre-Reformation Methil Parish Church, now part of Methilmill Cemetery.
Pre historic map key
Portrait of John Glas, the founder of the Glasites. (Credit: National Galleries of Scotland)
Point of Interest Key
Plaque outside the Parish Church of Inverkeithing (Source: Tom Turpie)
Pittenweem Parish Church and TolboothPittenweem Parish Church and Tolbooth
PittenweemPittenweem (/ˌpɪtənˈwiːm/) is a fishing village and civil parish in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. At the 2001 census, it had a population of…
Photosphere of KingcraigRaised beach platforms at Kingcraig, nr. Elie, Fife
Photograph of Pittenweem Priory in the 1940s. One of the priory outbuildings was home to an eighteenth-century Episcopal congregation. (Credit: University of St Andrews)
Pavel Kravar was burned at the stake beside the market cross in St Andrews. A saltire in the cobbles on Market Street shows where the cross once stood. (Credit: Bess Rhodes)
Parish Church of St Peter, West Tower (Source: Tom Turpie)
North Street in about 1846. The bell turret of Martyrs’ Kirk can be seen on the left-hand side of the street, opposite St Salvator’s Chapel. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, EPM-JA-10. Available at: https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/north-street-st-andrews/100475)
North Street around the site of St Anna’s Chapel, c. 1580. The larger building with three windows towards the centre of the image may represent the former chapel. (Source: John Geddy, ‘S. Andrew sive Andreapolis Scotiae Universitas Metropolitana’. NLS, MS.20996. Available at: http://maps.nls.uk/towns/rec/215)Until the late nineteenth century the people of North Queensferry worshipped in Inverkeithing or Dunfermline. The first parish church was built in…
Newburgh was one of a number of Fife communities where people seceded from the Church of Scotland in the 1730s and 1740s. View across Newburgh and the River Tay in about 1894. (Credit: University of St Andrews)Newburgh Parish Church was built in the early 1900s. It originally served as the United Free Church. The building was designed by the Dundee…
From the early 1600s to 1838 Methil was part of the parish of Wemyss and the congregation attended the church in Easter Wemyss. Following an increase…
In 1952 Alexander Smith listed a number what he described as Other religious bodies in Methil, including a Gospel Hall, the Central Gospel Mission and…
The church of the medieval parish of Methil (spelt Methilkil or Methilhill) was located inland, on the banks of the River Leven about a mile and a…
Methil Hill Cemetery (Source: Bess Rhodes 2021)Following the Great Disruption in 1843, a quod sacra Free Church parish was set up in Methil, before a full mission was established in 1852. The…
Methil Evangelical Church (Source; Bess Rhodes)
Methil and Denbeath Parish Church (Source: Bess Rhodes)In 1931, some 300 years after the closure of the parish church in Methilhill, a new Church of Scotland parish church was constructed on Chemiss Road,…
In the early 1920s the steady growth of the population of the town led the Church of Scotland to construct a new parish church in Methil to replace…
MethilMethil (Scottish Gaelic: Meadhchill)[2] is an eastern coastal town in Scotland. It was first recorded as "Methkil" in 1207, and belonged to the Bishop…
Memorial Fountain, CrailThe Memorial Fountain was built in 1897 and is dedicated to Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. It is built of both grey and red granite.
In 1855 Robert Robertson, a local linen merchant, purchased a former inn and converted it into a Meeting House for the villagers of North Queensferry.…
The first version of Martyrs’ Church was built in the 1840s by a Free Church congregation (one of the groups that broke away from the Church of…
The hill known as Mares Craig was for many years a stone quarry. In the 1920s a Celtic handbell, of the type associated with early medieval religious…
Long- Cist Burial, Isle of May (Source: RCAHMS)
Local dignitaries place crosses in the ground outside Holy Trinity Church in St Andrews on Armistice Day in 1936. (Credit: University of St Andrews)The building now occupied by Newburgh Flooring is widely believed to have once been a church. In reality for much of its history it appears to have…
Linktown Church in Kirkcaldy stands on the site of an eighteenth-century Burgher Church. For many years Kirkcaldy was a focal point for religious dissent. (Credit: Kilnburn / Wikimedia)Lindores Abbey was founded in the late twelfth century by David, Earl of Huntingdon. The earl had recently fought in the Third Crusade and established…
LeucharsLeuchars (pronounced /ˈluːxərs/ (About this soundlisten) or /ˈluːkərz/; Scottish Gaelic: Luachar "rushes") is a small town and parish near the…
Kirk, Anstruther WesterKirk, Anstruther Wester This fine old Kirk is now rather dilapidated and shored up in places. I suppose it's not in bad shape for something that has…
Kinkell Raised Beach 3360 photosphere on the 4m raised beach to east of Kinkell Braes
Kingsbarns Parish Church in the early twentieth century. During the 1730s Kingsbarns became the scene of a dispute between the congregation and the patron of the parish over the appointment of a new minister. (Credit: University of St Andrews)
Kingsbarns Geological TrailGeological field guide to Kingsbarns Beach.
Kingsbarns BeachKingsbarns has a variety of different fossils including 330 million year old millipede tracks. There are also fossilised shells and the imprints of…
Kinghorn to Kirkcaldy Geological TrailA walking trail to see the Geology between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy.
This area between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy has some pillow basalts as well as fossilised corals and crinoids.
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Buckhaven (Source: Bess Rhodes, 2021)Jehovah’s Witnesses were first established in Buckhaven in 1971, moving into a building constructed c.1900 and previously occupied by a group known as…
KingcraigKincraig Point raised beach platforms
kincaple OSL samplingTim Kinnaird OSL sampling
Kincaple East raised beaches
On the coast a little way north of the burgh of Crail (near Crail Airfield) is land known as Kilminning. This name is thought to derive from the…
John Knox - one of best known Protestant preachers in Reformation Scotland. (Credit: Wikimedia)
Inverkeithing Friary, InverkeithingInverkeithing Friary, Queen Street, Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
Inverkeithing Episcopal Church (Source: Bess Rhodes)
Inverkeithing Baptist Church (Source: Bess Rhodes)
InverkeithingInverkeithing (/ˌɪnvərˈkiːðɪŋ/ Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Chèitinn) is a port town and parish, in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. According to…
Interior of All Saints’ Church in about 1920. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, GMC-F-94.)
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Houses on Rose Wynd in 2021. (Source: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews.)
Hope Street and Howard Place in St Andrews near to the Friends Meeting House. (Source: Jim Bain / Wikimedia)Hope Park was built in the 1860s for the United Presbyterians, who had previously been worshipping in a house on North Street. The church was designed…
Hope Park Church in St Andrews in about 1860. Hope Park was one of many United Free Church congregations to join the Church of Scotland in 1929. (Credit: University of St Andrews)
Hope Park Church in about 1860. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, ALB-49-33. Available at: https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/u-p-united-presbyterian-church-st-andrews/80687)Since the early fifteenth century Holy Trinity Church has been located on South Street. The current site was given by Sir William Lindsay of the Byres…
The parish of Holy Trinity is first recorded in the 1140s, when Bishop Robert was reorganising religious life in St Andrews. For centuries Holy…
Holy Trinity Church St Andrews - A Testimony in StoneA guide to the different types of stone used to build Holy Trinity Church.
Holy Trinity Church in St Andrews. This image shows the church in the eighteenth century. The medieval stained glass has been removed and several windows partly blocked up to fit with Reformed ideas on church design. (Credit: University of St Andrews)
Holy Trinity Church in 2021. (Source: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews.)
Holy Trinity Church in 1767. Drawing by John Oliphant. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, OLI-16. Available at: https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/trinity-church-st-andrews/93065)Holy Trinity Church features many interesting types of stone, including a beautiful alabaster and marble pulpit.
The site now occupied by Holy Trinity Church has been a place of worship for several different denominations. A church was built here in the 1790s for…
The area now called Hallow Hill was once known as Eglesnamin. This name also has religious associations, with 'egles' appearing to be a Pictish word…
A Franciscan Friary was founded in Inverkeithing in the fourteenth century. The Greyfriars, as they were known from the colour of their cowls, were a…
During the late Middle Ages an Observant Franciscan friary was located on a large plot of land between Market Street and North Street (where…
Gothic revival carving above the main entrance to Newburgh Parish Church. (Source: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews)The Gospel Hall is in a former shop on the narrow section of Market Street. Christian Brethren (traditionally sometimes called Plymouth Brethren) have…
In 1952 Alexander Smith listed a number what he described as Other religious bodies in Methil, including a Gospel Hall, the Central Gospel Mission and…
Gospel Hall, Market Street, St Andrews. (Source: Bess Rhodes)As a result of the large numbers of German sailors visiting Methil annually in the late nineteenth century a missionary from the German Church in…
German Seaman’s Mission (Source: Vintage Lundin Links and Largo).Since 1993 Quaker meetings have been held in a Victorian house on Howard Place. The Society of Friends occupy the lower two storeys of the house, with…
Former site of Chapel of St Ayle in Anstruther Easter (Source: Creative Commons)
Font of St Michael’s Church, Buckhaven (Source: Bess Rhodes, 2021)Shortly after the start of World War II a small chapel was built in Methil Docks to cater to the dock personnel and those involved in war production…
The Congregationalist Church in Anstruther was formed in around 1800, following preaching in the town by James Haldane and Joseph Rate in 1798. They…
Esker St FortAerial view of the esker at St Fort
In 1818 applied to join the In 1820 the Burgher Presbytery of Perth granted a group called the Managers of the Associate Society of Anstruther £20 to…