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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…
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.
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.…
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…
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…
Long- Cist Burial, Isle of May (Source: RCAHMS)
Local dignitaries place crosses in the ground outside Holy Trinity Church in St Andrews on Armistice Day in 1936. (Credit: University of St Andrews)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…
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)Lindores Abbey was founded in the late twelfth century by David, Earl of Huntingdon. The earl had recently fought in the Third Crusade and established…
Leven Parish ChurchThe first written records for Leuchars Parish Church date from the 1180s. However, there may have been Christian activity here at an earlier date. The…
Leuchars Parish Church / St AthernaseA Free Church congregation was established in Leuchars in the 1840s, in the immediate aftermath of the Great Disruption. During the 1890s the church…
Leuchars Free Church / Henderson Hall
LeucharsLeuchars (pronounced /ˈluːxərs/ (About this soundlisten) or /ˈluːkərz/; Scottish Gaelic: Luachar "rushes") is a small town and parish near the…
Largo Parish Church
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…
Kinkell Raised Beach 3360 photosphere on the 4m raised beach to east of Kinkell Braes
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)
Kingsbarns Parish ChurchKingsbarns Parish Church, 2023.
Kingsbarns Geological TrailGeological field guide to Kingsbarns Beach.
Kingsbarns BeachKingsbarns has a variety of different fossils including 330 million year old millipede tracks. There are also fossilised shells and the imprints of…
Kinghorn to Kirkcaldy Geological TrailA walking trail to see the Geology between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy.
This area between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy has some pillow basalts as well as fossilised corals and crinoids.
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Buckhaven (Source: Bess Rhodes, 2021)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…
KingcraigKincraig Point raised beach platforms
kincaple OSL samplingTim Kinnaird OSL sampling
Kincaple East raised beaches
There 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…
Kilrenny Parish ChurchOn 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…
John Knox - one of best known Protestant preachers in Reformation Scotland. (Credit: Wikimedia)
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)
Inverkeithing Friary, InverkeithingInverkeithing Friary, Queen Street, Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
Inverkeithing Episcopal Church (Source: Bess Rhodes)
Inverkeithing Baptist Church (Source: Bess Rhodes)
InverkeithingInverkeithing (/ˌɪnvərˈkiːðɪŋ/ Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Chèitinn) is a port town and parish, in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. According to…
Interior of All Saints’ Church in about 1920. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, GMC-F-94.)
IncomeDuring the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the bishops of St Andrews had a residence at Inchmurdo. This has been tentatively identified as being…
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)
Houses on Rose Wynd in 2021. (Source: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews.)
Hope Street and Howard Place in St Andrews near to the Friends Meeting House. (Source: Jim Bain / Wikimedia)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 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 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)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…
The parish of Holy Trinity is first recorded in the 1140s, when Bishop Robert was reorganising religious life in St Andrews. For centuries Holy…
Holy Trinity Church St Andrews - A Testimony in StoneA guide to the different types of stone used to build Holy Trinity Church.
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 in 2021. (Source: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews.)
Holy Trinity Church in 1767. Drawing by John Oliphant. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, OLI-16. Available at: https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/trinity-church-st-andrews/93065)Holy Trinity Church features many interesting types of stone, including a beautiful alabaster and marble pulpit.
The site now occupied by Holy Trinity Church has been a place of worship for several different denominations. A church was built here in the 1790s for…
The area now called Hallow Hill was once known as Eglesnamin. This name also has religious associations, with 'egles' appearing to be a Pictish word…
For much of the nineteenth century there was no church in Guardbridge. However, in the 1880s the United Presbyterians established a church on the main…
Guardbridge Parish ChurchA Franciscan Friary was founded in Inverkeithing in the fourteenth century. The Greyfriars, as they were known from the colour of their cowls, were a…
During the late Middle Ages an Observant Franciscan friary was located on a large plot of land between Market Street and North Street (where…
Gothic revival carving above the main entrance to Newburgh Parish Church. (Source: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews)
Gospel Hall, St Monans, 2023Gospel Hall, St Monans, 2023. (B. Rhodes)
Gospel Hall in St Monans was built in the 1950s. However, the evangelical congregation that worship at Gospel Hall have had a presence in St Monans…
The Gospel Hall is in a former shop on the narrow section of Market Street. Christian Brethren (traditionally sometimes called Plymouth Brethren) have…
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…
Gospel Hall, Market Street, St Andrews. (Source: Bess Rhodes)As a result of the large numbers of German sailors visiting Methil annually in the late nineteenth century a missionary from the German Church in…
German Seaman’s Mission (Source: Vintage Lundin Links and Largo).A Free Church congregation was established at Gauldry in the 1840s. The site of the church is clearly marked on the first edition of the Ordnance…
Gauldry Parish Church / Gauldry Free ChurchSince 1993 Quaker meetings have been held in a Victorian house on Howard Place. The Society of Friends occupy the lower two storeys of the house, with…
Former site of Chapel of St Ayle in Anstruther Easter (Source: Creative Commons)
Forgan-Parish-Church-OS-Map.pngForgan Parish Church and its location near the road and the local smithy. Ordnance Survey Map of Fife, 1855
Forgan-Old-Parish-Church.jpgIn the 1840s the minister of Forgan, Charles Nairn, supported the construction of a new parish church, located on the main road between Leuchars and…
There is a church recorded at Forgan in the twelfth century. The old parish church at Forgan was appropriated to St Andrews Cathedral Priory for much…
Forgan Old Parish Church / St Fillan's Parish Church
Font of St Michael’s Church, Buckhaven (Source: Bess Rhodes, 2021)Shortly after the start of World War II a small chapel was built in Methil Docks to cater to the dock personnel and those involved in war production…
There seems to have been a parish church at Flisk as early as the 1170s. The medieval parish church survived into the late eighteenth century, before…
Flisk Parish ChurchFerryport-on-Craig is the old name for Tayport – the name changed in the nineteenth century under influence from the railways. During the Middle Ages…
The Congregationalist Church in Anstruther was formed in around 1800, following preaching in the town by James Haldane and Joseph Rate in 1798. They…
Esker St FortAerial view of the esker at St Fort
In 1818 applied to join the In 1820 the Burgher Presbytery of Perth granted a group called the Managers of the Associate Society of Anstruther £20 to…
When the Church of Scotland adopted Presbyterianism at the start of the 1690s a number of ministers refused to support the change. The minister of…
Engraving of Queen Anne by J.C. Marchand. Anne was the first ruler of the newly created United Kingdom. (Credit: National Galleries of Scotland)