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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 St Andrews - A Testimony in StoneA guide to the different types of stone used to build Holy Trinity Church.
The parish of Holy Trinity is first recorded in the 1140s, when Bishop Robert was reorganising religious life in St Andrews. For centuries Holy…
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…
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)
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 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 Street and Howard Place in St Andrews near to the Friends Meeting House. (Source: Jim Bain / Wikimedia)
Houses on Rose Wynd in 2021. (Source: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews.)
Housing
Inchmurdo Chapel / Bishop's Palace Lower KenlyThe old doocot at Kenly. The bishop’s palace may have been nearby. Photo by Hamish Brown. (H. Brown / University of St Andrews)
During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the bishops of St Andrews had a residence at Inchmurdo. This has been tentatively identified as being…
Interior of All Saints’ Church in about 1920. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, GMC-F-94.)
InverkeithingInverkeithing (/ˌɪnvərˈkiːðɪŋ/ Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Chèitinn) is a port town and parish, in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. According to…
Inverkeithing Baptist Church (Source: Bess Rhodes)
Inverkeithing Episcopal Church (Source: Bess Rhodes)
Inverkeithing Friary, InverkeithingInverkeithing Friary, Queen Street, Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
Joan Blaeu’s map of Fife with detail of Ayton or ‘Aitoune’. (Source: National Library of Scotland, https://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu/browse/92)
John Knox - one of best known Protestant preachers in Reformation Scotland. (Credit: Wikimedia)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…
Kilrenny Parish ChurchThere has been Christian activity at Kilrenny since Pictish times, and it is likely that there was an early medieval church on or near the site of the…
Kincaple East raised beaches
kincaple OSL samplingTim Kinnaird OSL sampling
KingcraigKincraig Point raised beach platforms
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…
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Buckhaven (Source: Bess Rhodes, 2021)This area between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy has some pillow basalts as well as fossilised corals and crinoids.
Kinghorn to Kirkcaldy Geological TrailA walking trail to see the Geology between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy.
Kingsbarns has a variety of different fossils including 330 million year old millipede tracks. There are also fossilised shells and the imprints of…
Kingsbarns Beach
Kingsbarns Geological TrailGeological field guide to Kingsbarns Beach.
Kingsbarns Parish ChurchKingsbarns Parish Church, 2023.
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)
Kinkell Raised Beach 3360 photosphere on the 4m raised beach to east of Kinkell Braes
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…
Largo Parish Church
LeucharsLeuchars (pronounced /ˈluːxərs/ (About this soundlisten) or /ˈluːkərz/; Scottish Gaelic: Luachar "rushes") is a small town and parish near the…
Leuchars Free Church / Henderson HallA Free Church congregation was established in Leuchars in the 1840s, in the immediate aftermath of the Great Disruption. During the 1890s the church…
Leuchars Parish Church / St AthernaseThe first written records for Leuchars Parish Church date from the 1180s. However, there may have been Christian activity here at an earlier date. The…
Leven Parish ChurchLindores Abbey was founded in the late twelfth century by David, Earl of Huntingdon. The earl had recently fought in the Third Crusade and established…
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)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…
Local dignitaries place crosses in the ground outside Holy Trinity Church in St Andrews on Armistice Day in 1936. (Credit: University of St Andrews)
Long- Cist Burial, Isle of May (Source: RCAHMS)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…
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…
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.…
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.
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…
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…
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,…
Methil and Denbeath Parish Church (Source: Bess Rhodes)
Methil Evangelical Church (Source; Bess Rhodes)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 Hill Cemetery (Source: Bess Rhodes 2021)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…
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…
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…
Military Chapel Leuchars Station / St Peter’s Station ChurchDuring the First World War the Royal Flying Corps established a presence at Leuchars. This subsequently became an RAF station. A military chapel…
Newburgh Parish Church was built in the early 1900s. It originally served as the United Free Church. The building was designed by the Dundee…
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)
Newburn Old Parish ChurchThe ruins of Newburn Old Parish Church.
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 Parish ChurchThe converted parish church at Newburn.
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…
A Congregational church was established in Newport-on-Tay in 1801. In the 1860s a substantial Gothic style church was built for the congregation at…
Newport-on-Tay Parish Church / St Thomas ChurchDuring the nineteenth century the population of Newport-on-Tay grew significantly. In the 1860s a campaign developed for a parish church in Newport,…
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Newport-on-Tay-Parish-Church.jpgUntil the late nineteenth century the people of North Queensferry worshipped in Inverkeithing or Dunfermline. The first parish church was built in…
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)
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)
Our Lady Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church, TayportThe 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 TayportOur Lady Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church
Parish Church of St Peter, West Tower (Source: Tom Turpie)
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)
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)
Photosphere of KingcraigRaised beach platforms at Kingcraig, nr. Elie, Fife
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…
Pittenweem Parish Church
Pittenweem Parish Church and TolboothPittenweem Parish Church and Tolbooth
Pittenweem Priory