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St Andrews Geological TrailGeological field guide to St Andrews.
St Andrews Cathedral was once the most important church in Scotland. It was the base for the country’s senior bishopric and housed the relics of…
St Andrews Castle seen from the air. Before the Reformation the castle was the residence of the Archbishops of St Andrews. (Credit: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews)
St Andrews Castle at the end of the seventeenth century. The windows of the castle chapel (with their quatrefoil tracery) can be seen to the right of the fore tower. (Source: John Slezer, ‘The Ruins of the Castle of St Andrews’, Theatrum Scotiae (1693). Available at: http://digital.nls.uk/slezer/engraving.cfm?sl=15)
St AndrewsSt Andrews (Latin: S. Andrea(s); Scots: Saunt Aundraes; Scottish Gaelic: Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, 10 miles (16…
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St Andrew’s Episcopal Church in about 1955. Photograph by George Cowie. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, GMC-29-20-4. Available at: https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/st-andrews-episcopal-church-queens-terrace-st-andrews/585969)St Andrew’s Church was built to replace a smaller Episcopal church (also dedicated to St Andrew) which once stood on North Street. The foundations for…
St Andrew’s Church, Buckhaven (Source: Bess Rhodes, 2021)
St Andrew’s Church, Buckhaven (Source: Amanda Gow, 2007)After the Great Disruption of 1843, adherents of the Free Church in Buckhaven initially attended the church in East Wemyss, before the decision was…
St Andrew’s Chapel in about 1865. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, ALB-10-62.)
St Andrew’s Chapel in about 1865. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, ALB-10-62. Available at: https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/st-andrews-chapel-st-andrews/43875 )In 1690 Scotland officially became a Presbyterian country, rejecting episcopacy (or the government of the church by bishops). Some Scots did not…
St Andrew's Episcopal Chapel on North Street in St Andrews in about 1865. Not long after this photograph was taken the episcopal congregation moved to a larger church on Queen's Terrace which is still in use today. (Credit: University of St Andrews)Current use: residential.
St Andrew's Church, Leven
St Agatha’s Roman Catholic Church, Methil (Source: Bess Rhodes)Nearly four centuries after the Protestant Reformation, a Roman Catholic congregation returned to Methil with the opening of a church in 1903. Located…
A Church of Scotland ‘chapel at ease’ was built in what is now Church Street in West Wemyss in 1835. It was intended to save the villagers the long…
Sketch of the Ruins of the May chapel, 1869 (Source: Mathew Conolly, Fifiana: or Memorials of the East of Fife (Glasgow, 1869), p. 204)
Sketch of ‘Annabella Drummond’s House’, 1894 (Source: John Geddie, The Fringes of Fife (Edinburgh, 1894), p. 41)
Site of Buckhaven Links Church (Source: Amanda Gow, 2007)
Seal of St Andrews Cathedral Priory showing St Rule’s Church. The now demolished nave and west frontage can be seen on the left side of the seal. (Source: University of St Andrews Library)The Scottish Coastal Mission, founded in 1850, was a Protestant organisation dedicated to ministering to sailors and maritime communities. By 1861…
Scottish Coast Mission (Source: Places of Worship in Scotland)
Sampling Platforms, KingcraigSampling the platform sections at Kingcraig point for OSL dating
A corps of the Salvation Army was first launched in Buckhaven in 1897, fell into abeyance and but was re-founded in 1936. They met in Mullin Hall…
The Salvation Army started a corps in St Andrews in 1893. After some difficulties in the early years, there was a continuous Salvation Army presence…
Salvation Army (Source: Amanda Gow, 2007)
Ruins of Lindores Abbey. This photograph looks across what would once have been the cloister. (Source: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews)This bay doesn’t actually have rubies, it’s named after the tiny red garnets in the sand which look a bit like rubies to the untrained eye. You might…
The early nineteenth century saw major divisions in the Church of Scotland over secular interference in religious affairs. In the 1840s a large number…
Rock and Spindle overvivewOverview of Kinkell Ness with Rock and Spindle
The Rock and Spindle is an ancient volcanic vent, and it has an excellent example of radial columnar jointing (it looks like spokes of a wheel) due to…
Rock and SpindleThe Rock and Spindle geological site
Remains of the late medieval church of the Dominican friars in St Andrews. (Credit: Bess Rhodes)
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Reconstruction showing the possible appearance of the parish church of Holy Trinity in St Andrews, c.1559. (Credit: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews)
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
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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.
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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 Priory
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Pittenweem Parish Church
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)
Our Lady Star of the Sea TayportOur Lady Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church
The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea opened in 1939. The building was designed by the notable architect Reginald Fairlie – a comitted…
Our Lady Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church, Tayport
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…
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Newport-on-Tay-Congregational-Church.pngDuring the nineteenth century the population of Newport-on-Tay grew significantly. In the 1860s a campaign developed for a parish church in Newport,…
Newport-on-Tay Parish Church / St Thomas ChurchA Congregational church was established in Newport-on-Tay in 1801. In the 1860s a substantial Gothic style church was built for the congregation at…
Newburn Parish Church was built around 1815, replacing a nearby medieval church. It was designed by the Largo architect Alexander Leslie. The New…
Newburn Parish Church was built around 1815, replacing a nearby medieval church. It was designed by the Largo architect Alexander Leslie. The New…
Newburn Parish ChurchThe converted parish church at Newburn.
There appears to have been a church at Newburn as early as the twelfth century, and perhaps some time before that. For much of the Middle Ages the…
Newburn Old Parish ChurchThe ruins of Newburn Old Parish Church.
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…
During the First World War the Royal Flying Corps established a presence at Leuchars. This subsequently became an RAF station. A military chapel…
Military Chapel Leuchars Station / St Peter’s Station ChurchFrom 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…