St David’s Church

St David’s Church

Towards the end of the 1840s the Free Church congregation in Crail built a church on the road then known as Jockeys Port (now called St Andrews Road). The original Victorian building was demolished near the beginning of the twentieth century, and replaced with an imposing Gothic revival building designed by James Davidson Cairns. The new building was influenced by both Scottish and English architectural traditions. In 1929 the Free Church rejoined the Church of Scotland. This meant there was more than one Church of Scotland congregation in Crail, and the former Free Church became known as St David’s. The building continued as a place of worship until the 1950s when it was converted into a church hall. It is now owned by Crail Community Partnership and is run as an event space for the local area under the name Crail Community Hall.

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(1) Crail Community Hall, ‘About the Hall’: https://www.crailcommunityhall.co.uk/about-us [Accessed 23 September 2021]. (2) Places of Worship in Scotland, ‘Crail Community Hall’: http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/site/id/8404/name/Crail+Community+Hall+Crail+Fife [Accessed 23 September 2021]. (3) Ordnance Survey Map of Fife, 1855, sheet 20: https://maps.nls.uk/view/74426837 [Accessed 23 September 2021].

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St David’s Church

https://www.crailcommunityhall.co.uk/about-us

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Building

453

1950

Church of Scotland,Free Church

Crail