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In 1845 Hugh Ralph noted that one family in the parish belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, but it was not until 1971 that a RC congregation…
St Serf’s Roman Catholic Church was built in 1922 after the opening of new pits at Valleyfield and Blairhall in the early twentieth century saw a…
St. Monans Parish Church, FifeThere is some debate as to when the Episcopal Church congregation was founded in Aberdour. In 1845 Hugh Ralph noted that there was one Episcopal…
St. Athernase Church, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland
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St_Adrian_s_West_Wemyss.jpgDuring the late Middle Ages the Chapel of St Thomas of Seamylnes was located near the coast in the Newport-on-Tay area. In the 1440s the local ferry…
St Serf’s Tower and the Pan Ha (Source: Creative Commons)
St Serf’s Roman Catholic Church (Source: Amanda Gow, 2007)The church of St Serf in Dysart first appears in the documentary record in the 1220s, although it is clear that it had existed long before then. In…
Although Culross only enters the written record in the 1200s, it is clear from archaeological evidence that a community had existed there long before…
St Serf’s Cave in Dysart has been connected to that important local saint since the early middle ages. Serf had dedications across Western Fife,…
St Serf's Inch on Loch Leven. This island was home to an early Culdee community. (Credit: Mike Pennington / Wikimedia)
St Serf's Church, DysartDysart, Panhall, Shore Road, St Serf's Church
St Saviour’s Episcopal Church stood on the main road through Guardbridge. It was built around 1900 and was designed by C.F. Anderson. The church…
St Saviour’s Episcopal Church, Guardbridge
St Salvator’s Chapel in about 1767. Some of the original windows have been partly blocked up, others are covered with shutters. The medieval stone roof can still be seen. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, OLI-11.)
St Salvator’s Chapel in about 1767. Some of the original windows have been partly blocked up, others are covered with shutters. The medieval stone roof can still be seen. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, OLI-11. Available at: https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/st-salvators-college-chapel/93059)St Salvator’s College was established in the 1450s by Bishop James Kennedy. The new university college was dedicated to Christ the Saviour, and was…
St Salvator's QuadrangleThe building now known as St Rule’s Church originally served as St Andrews Cathedral. The church was probably built on the orders of Bishop Robert…
In 1899 the bishop of St Andrews, Dunblane and Dunkeld was successfully petitioned for the foundation of an episcopal mission church in Inverkeithing…
St Peter’s Episcopal Church (Creative Commons) © Copyright 2021, SCHR Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact us for permission to use this image.We do not know exactly when St Peter’s Chapel was founded. However, in 1212 there was a reference to ‘two houses by the sea beside the chapel of St…
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St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, LevenThe 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…
St Peter's Episcopal Church in Kirkcaldy in about 1880. An Episcopal church was built in Kirkcaldy in 1811 following the lifting of restrictions in the 1790s. The building shown here was built in 1844 and demolished in the 1970s. (Credit: University of St Andrews)In 1913, nearly four centuries after the Protestant Reformation, a Roman Catholic congregation returned to Inverkeithing area with the foundation of…
St Peter-in-Chains, Hope Street, Inverkeithing (Source: Creative Commons)
St Paul's Roman Catholic Church in Glenrothes in 1962. St Paul's was one of several new Roman Catholic churches built in Fife during the mid-twentieth century. (Credit: University of St Andrews)
St Oran's Chapel on the island of Iona. (Credit: Libasstref / Wikimedia)The hospital of St Nicholas was founded as a refuge for lepers in the twelfth century. Because of fears of infection it stood a little to the south of…
St Mungo’s Chapel (Source: Ewan Malecki (October 2007).
St Monans Parish Church / Dominican FriarySt Monans Parish Church has a lengthy history of Christian worship. The site may have been a place of pilgrimage long before the construction of the…
St Monans Parish Church
St Monans Geological TrailA walking trail to see the Geology of St Monans.
St Monans has a number of fossils including corals and also a coal seam. The rocks here have been folded and tilted since they were deposited.
In 1901 a Church of Scotland ‘chapel at ease’ was established to serve the inhabitants of Buckhaven. Constructed in St Michael’s Street, it became a…
The ruins of the medieval church of St Mary’s on the Rock (also called St Mary’s Kirkhill) stand on the cliffs looking out over the North Sea. This…
The site of St Mary’s College on South Street has lengthy associations with religion and learning. In 1419 Robert de Montrose (one of the priests who…
During the early nineteenth century the parish church of Holy Trinity on South Street became too small for the growing population of St Andrews. To…
St Mary’s Chapel in West Wemyss was connected to the parish church in East Wemyss, as a dispute of 1527-28 noted that offerings at the chapel should…
St Mary’s By the Sea (Source: Richard Fawcett 2012)St Mary’s Church was built in the 1880s by Newport’s growing Episcopalian community. The building was designed in a Gothic style by Major Thomas…
St Mary's Episcopal ChurchThe parish church of St Mary in East Wemyss, first recorded c.1230, belonged successively to the Hospital of Soutra and the Church of the Holy Trinity…
Little is known about the medieval chapel of St Mary Magdalene. Sixteenth-century property records indicate that it was located within the cathedral…
The placename Eglismartin (the ‘Church of (St) Martin’) in Easter Aberdour was first recorded in the fourteenth century. Names with the Eglis or…
James Douglas, earl of Morton (d.1493) founded St Martha’s hospital in Aberdour in 1474. However, by 1486 this project had not been realised, and the…
James Douglas, 1st earl of Morton (d.1493) founded St Martha’s hospital in Aberdour in 1474. It was located close to a holy well dedicated to St…
Tayport Episcopal Church was established in the 1890s. The church is dedicated to St Margaret of Scotland and was designed by Major Thomas Martin…
St Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church, Tayport
St Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church, LevenThe parish of St Leonard’s has its origins in the Middle Ages. However, the congregation has only worshipped in the current St Leonard’s Church on…
St Leonard’s Chapel has a long and varied history. The Culdees may have had a pilgrim hospital on this site in the Early Middle Ages. In the 1140s the…
St Leonard’s Chapel after 1761. The chapel was then in ruins and being used to grow shrubs, although the (now demolished) college tower was still standing. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, OLI-15. Available at: https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/st-leonards-chapel/93063)There were some Episcopalian families in Newburgh in the eighteenth century. However, they do not appear to have had an official place of worship. In…
For several centuries St Katherine’s Church (which was formerly located on the north side of the High Street) served as Newburgh’s parish church. The…
St John’s was founded in 1752 following a split within the congregation of St Peter’s parish church over the choice of a minister by right of…
St John's, Inverkeithing (Source: Bess Rhodes)
St John's Episcopal Church
St John's Church in Inverkeithing has its origins in an eighteenth-century burgher congregation. In 1847 the congregation of St John's joined the United Presbyterians. The congregation later became Church of Scotland. The building now serves as the parish church for Inverkeithing. (Credit: Graeme Smith / Wikimedia)
St John's Church in Inverkeithing has its origins in an eighteenth-century burgher congregation. In 1847 the congregation of St John's joined the United Presbyterians. The congregation later became Church of Scotland. (Credit: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews)Following the Reformation the authorities in St Andrews (like many other Scottish towns) prosecuted Roman Catholics. This meant that for several…
At the Great Disruption in 1843 a large group of the congregation of East Wemyss parish church broke away and joined the Free Church. They began…
St George’s Church, East Wemyss (Source: Bess Rhodes, 2021)
St Fort QuarryAerial view of St Fort sand and gravel quarry
St Fort disused sand and gravel quarry on the Wormit esker.
The parish church of Aberdour first appears in the records in the twelfth century when it was the subject of a dispute between a local lord, William…
St Fillan's Roman Catholic Church, NewportSt Fillan’s Roman Catholic Church in Newport-on-Tay is a rare surviving example of a so-called ‘tin tabernacle’ – in other words a church built out of…
St Fillan's Roman Catholic Church, Newport
St Fillan's Church, Aberdour (Source: Richard Fawcett, 2012)
St Fillan's Church, Aberdour (Source: Bess Rhodes 2021)
St Fillan's Church Pittenweem / Pittenweem Relief Church / Parish Church Hall
St Fillan's Church 20100930 from the southSt Fillan's Church, Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. View from the south.
St Fillan's Cave, PittenweemEarly Christian hand-bell formerly kept and used in St Fillan’s Church, Struan (near Blair Atholl), Perthshire, and possibly associated with that…
St Fillan's BellThe priory of May was founded by David I, sometime around the year 1140. It was dedicated to St Ethernan, and was affiliated to a mother house located…
The Isle of May was an important early Christian site which included a chapel and shrine from at least the ninth century, and probably earlier. The…
By 1869, the congregation of the United Presbyterian Church on Buckhaven Links took the decision to construct a new, larger, place of worship on…
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).…
St Columba’s Episcopal Church, AberdourFollowing the Great Disruption in 1843, the minister of Dysart, John Thomson, and a large part of the congregation joined the Free Church. Their first…
It is thought that a medieval chapel, possibly dedicated to St Bonach, once stood not far from the current site of Leuchars Parish Church. The chapel…
St Bonach’s ChapelAnstruther Easter was part of the parish of Kilrenny until 1634, but by the later middle ages it was home to a growing fishing community. At some time…
During the late Middle Ages a chapel dedicated to St Anna (the grandmother of Jesus) stood on the north side of North Street. St Anna’s Chapel was…
St Andrews’ Dominican friary shortly after the Reformation. (Source: John Geddy, ‘S. Andrew sive Andreapolis Scotiae Universitas Metropolitana’. NLS, MS.20996. Available at: http://maps.nls.uk/towns/rec/215)Carboniferous volcanic vent, Kinkell Ness has at its centre the Rock and Spindle