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West Hall in Wormit was built in the 1890s as a mission hall for the Church of Scotland. The building was designed by Major Thomas Cappon, who also created the plans for St Mary’s Episcopal Church in Newport-on-Tay. In 1911 West Hall became Wormit…

Now a community Hall.

A walking trail to see the geology of Wormit.

At Wormit there is a wide variety of geology including lava flows, river conglomerates, intrusive rhyolite and glacial erratics.

There was formerly a United Presbyterian Church on Castle Street. The church building is clearly marked on the 1850s Ordnance Survey map of Fife. The New Statistical Account (compiled in the 1830s) remarks on the presence of “a small dissenting…

The United Secession Church had its origins in the splits within the Church of Scotland in the eighteenth century. The congregation worshipped for some years in the two burgher churches on South Street, but in the 1820s moved to what is now 52 North…

Site of the United Presbyterian Church on the 1855 Ordnance Survey map of Fife.

On the east side of Clinton Street stands Newburgh’s United Reformed Church. This building has a complicated denominational history. In the early 1840s over a hundred people who disagreed with the congregation at the former Burgher Church on Clinton…

A congregation belonging to the Relief Church was founded in Dysart sometime in the 1760s. In 1772 they opened their own church, which later became known as the Auld House, in a former malt barn on Relief Street. It cost £600 and was capable of…

The origins of the United Free Church on King Street go back into the nineteenth century. Work began on a church on this site in the 1840s, although there have been significant changes to the building in the succeeding 180 years. It remains a place…

Silver from the Traprain Law Treasure, East Lothian, Scotland. Bowls of river spoons.

Trinity Church was established in the 1880s for the Newport-on-Tay United Presbyterian congregation. The church building was designed by the architects C. and L. Ower. Following the amalagamation of the United Presbyterians with the Free Church in…

Converted to residential.

The Tolbooth built in 1598 and tower, rebuilt in 1776 contain well cut blocks of both local sandstone (buff-coloured) and material from Locharbriggs Quarry, Dumfries (dark red sandstone)

The Tolbooth built in 1598 and tower, rebuilt in 1776 contain well cut blocks of both local sandstone (buff-coloured) and material from Locharbriggs Quarry, Dumfries (dark red sandstone)

Tollbooth Tower, Crail

The west end of the former Livingstone Hall. (Source: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews)

The original parish church of Holy Trinity was probably a little to the north of St Rule’s, in the area towards the centre and right side of this photograph. (Source: Bess Rhodes)

Tayport Parish Church on Queen Street was built in the 1840s for a Free Church congregation. It has an impressive Victorian Gothic frontage. Following the union of the United Free Church with the established church in 1929, the congregation became…

Tayport Auld Kirk

Strathkinness Parish Church was built in the 1860s. The building underwent major repairs in the 1930s, following the union between the village’s Church of Scotland and Free Church congregations. In the 1950s two stained glass windows from St…

A Free Church congregation was established at Strathkinness in the 1840s during the Great Disruption. In the 1860s they built a church on Main Street in Strathkinness. The Free Church was converted into a community hall in the 1930s, as following the…