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In 1739 a Buckhaven resident and one of the elders of Wemyss Parish Church, Mr John Thomson, seceded from the Church of Scotland with a number of…
Buckhaven Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses (Source: Amanda Gow, 2007)
Buckhaven Church of God (Source: Amanda Gow, 2007).
Buckhaven Church of God (Bess Rhodes, 2021)The Buckhaven Church of God was formed as a breakaway from the Open Brethren in 1986. They are an evangelical organisation part of the global…
The Buckhaven Christian Fellowship moved into the building on Institution Street in 1969. It had formerly been a United Free Church constructed in…
Buckhaven Baptist Church (Source: Bess Rhodes, 2021)
Buckhaven Baptist Church (Source: Amanda Gow, 2007)Buckhaven’s Baptist Church was formed in the early 1900s as part of a wider revival moment in Fife. The earliest mission began in November of 1908,…
Buckhaven and Wemyss Parish Church (Source: Presbytery of Kirkcaldy, 2021)
Bruce of Culross and Carnock Monument (Source: Bess Rhodes)Braehead Church was built in the 1870s. It originally housed a Free Church Congregation. Following the union of the United Free Church and the Church…
Braehead Evangelical Church, St MonansBraehead Church, 2023. (B. Rhodes)
Braehead Evangelical churchBraehead church, 2023.
Boarhills Church was founded in the 1860s. The building was designed by George Rae. When the church was being constructed several stone cists were…
Boarhills Church / Chesterhill ChapelThe Dominican order (or black friars) arrived in St Andrews during the fifteenth century. There are references to a Dominican place or house in St…
Bishop John Strain - the first Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh after the Roman Catholic hierarchy was reintroduced to Scotland. (Credit: Wikimedia)
Bishop George Hay was the Roman Catholic leader responsible for Lowland Scotland in the late eighteenth century. In 1779 Hay's house in Edinburgh was burned during anti-Catholic protests. (Credit: G.A. Periam / Wikimedia)In 1802-03 a new parish church was constructed in Dysart and the congregation moved from St Serf’s in an event known locally as the year of the big…
There has been a Baptist church on South Street since the early 1840s. When the original church opened it had seating for 250 people. The main space…
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Baptist Church, PittenweemThe Baptist Chapel on the north side of the High Street in Newburgh was built in the early 1880s. It replaced an earlier chapel on a wynd on the south…
In the early 1900s a revival moment swept through Fife and led to the formation Inverkeithing’s Baptist Church. A mission was first planted in the…
In 1808 a Baptist chapel was founded in Newburgh. The congregation was established by Archibald McLean, who was leading figure in the Scotch Baptists…
The church was formed following a visit to the town by James Haldane in 1812, and meetings were held thereafter in the building known as the…
Bankhead Brae in Crail. An Episcopal chapel was located in this area during the early eighteenth century. (Source: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews.)In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there was a Burgher Chapel located on the north side of Balmullo, near what is now Smithy Lane. The…
Balmullo Burgher ChapelDuring the eighteenth century there was an Anti-Burgher congregation in Balmullo. The Anti-Burghers were one of a number of Protestant dissenting…
Balmullo Anti-Burgher ChurchBalmerino Parish Church opened in 1811. Previously the residents of Balmerino had worshipped at an older church in Kirkton of Balmerino. In 1838…
Balmerino Parish ChurchThe burial ground towards the southern edge of Kirkton of Balmerino reflects the site of the old parish church. According to local legend the parish…
Balmerino Old Parish Church, BalmerinoBalmerino Abbey was founded in the 1220s by Queen Ermengarde and her son Alexander II. The new monastery at Balmerino was a Cistercian community, and…
Balmerino Abbey, BalmerinoThere is thought to have been a chapel located slightly to the east of the ruins of Ballinbreich Castle. In the 1840s it was noted that ‘the…
Ballinbreich Castle Chapel / Chapel Hill / Glenduckie Chapel, Ballinbreich
Balchrystie Roy mapBalchrysty and its surroundings on the eighteenth-century Roy Military Survey.
The origins of the ruined chapel at Ayton are unclear, although it has (probably incorrectly) sometimes been thought to be the same site as a chapel…
Arthropleura Tracks, St AndrewsArthropleura tracks near St Andrews, a cast of them can be seen in MUSA, the Scores, St Andrews
Arthropleura TracksThe Anti-Burgher Congregation in Dysart was formed in 1747. In the early years they met in an old barn before constructing their own church in 1763 at…
The parish church of Anstruther Wester is first documented in 1225 when it was under the patronage of the monks of Isle of May. Dedicated to St…
Anstruther Wester (Source: Bess Rhodes 2021)
Anstruther St Nicholas, 1844, Taylor (Source: R. Fawcett)
Anstruther Evangelical Church (2007) (Source: © Copyright 2021, SCHR Ltd)
Anstruther Erskine United Free Church (2007) (Source: © Copyright 2021, SCHR Ltd)
Anstruther Easter, St Adrian’s (Source: © Copyright Richard Sutcliffe and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence)
Anstruther Easter Parish Church (Source: Bess Rhodes 2021)In 1641 Anstruther Easter was separated from Kilrenny and became the smallest parish by area in Scotland at the time. Construction of a church begun…
Anstruther Church, exterior, from south east (Source: R. Fawcett)
Anstruther Baptist Church (2007) (Source: © Copyright 2021, SCHR Ltd)
AnstrutherAnstruther /ˈænstrəðər/ (Locally Ainster /ˈɛnstər/ Scottish Gaelic: Ànsruthair) is a small coastal resort town in Fife, Scotland, situated on the…
An engraving of King Charles II by William Fairthorne. (Credit: National Galleries of Scotland)
An engraving of James Francis Edward Stuart (also known as the Old Pretender). In normal circumstances James would have been king of Scotland and England but legislation was passed banning Roman Catholics from the throne. (Credit: National Galleries of Scotland)
An English cartoon by William Heath making fun of Christmas festivities in the countryside in about 1800. (Credit: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London)
An eighteenth-century painting of St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews. John Douglas was for many years a member of St Mary's. (Credit: University of St Andrews)
An eighteenth-century drawing of the monument to Archbishop Sharp in Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews. A relief near the base of the monument shows the archbishop's murder. (Credit: University of St Andrews)
An early seventeenth-century house in Inverkeithing. In July 1651 there was a battle fought just to the south of Inverkeithing between English Parliamentarians and Scottish supporters of Charles II. (Credit: Open Virtual Worlds / University of St Andrews)
An anonymous engraving of Queen Mary II. With her husband William of Orange, Mary authorised the restoration of Presbyterianism in Scotland. (Credit: National Galleries of Scotland)
An anonymous engraving of King James VI and I. (Credit: National Galleries of Scotland)All Saints’ Church originally served the St Andrews fishing community (which was traditionally focused around the east end of town). In 1903 a small…
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Aberdour Geological TrailA walking trail to see the geology of Aberdour.
Shortly after the Great Disruption in 1843, a Free Church congregation was founded in Aberdour. They opened a church, called St Colme’s, in 1845,…
Aberdour Former Parish Church Interior (before 1926).The location of the church so close to their country seat at Aberdour Castle had been a point of contention for the Douglas family for some time, and…
At Aberdour the country rock (carboniferous sandstone) has been intruded by younger magma. There are also good examples of faulting and cross bedding.
AberdourAberdour (/ˌæbərˈdaʊər/ (About this soundlisten); Scots: Aiberdour,[2] Scottish Gaelic: Obar Dobhair) is a scenic and historic village on the south…
Abercrombie mapSt Monans and Abercrombie [Abircroy] on J. Blaeu’s map of Eastern Fife, 1654.
The former parish church of Abercrombie is first recorded around 1160. During the Middle Ages both Dunfermline Abbey and Culross Abbey had rights…
Abercrombie ChurchSt Monans and Abercrombie [Abircroy] on J. Blaeu’s map of Eastern Fife, 1654. (National Library of Scotland)
Abdie Old Parish Church (Bess Rhodes).There has been a parish church at Abdie since at least the 1190s. For most of the Middle Ages the rectorship of Abdie was held by Lindores Abbey. The…
Abdie and Dunbog Parish Church (Bess Rhodes).Abdie and Dunbog Parish Church opened its doors in 1827. It was built to replace Abdie’s medieval parish church. The architects for the new building…
The Abbey of Culross was founded in 1217 by Maol Choluim I, Earl of Fife (1204–1228), who was himself buried in the church in 1228x1229. Dedicated to…
A wreath and the letters PH marking the site of Patrick Hamilton's execution on North Street in St Andrews. (Credit: Bess Rhodes)
A woodcut showing protestors objecting to Archbishop Spottiswoode's efforts to introduce the Scottish Prayer Book. (Credit: Wikimedia)
A video showing how St Andrews Cathedral may have appeared in 1318. (Source: Open Virtual Worlds / Smart History)
A section of old masonry which perhaps formed part of Crail Castle. (Source: William Jack / University of St Andrews Library, WMJ-EN-115-2.)
A naval inspection at Crail Airfield in the early 1940s. (Source: University of St Andrews Library, GMC-5-16-17.)
A naval inspection at Crail Aerodrome in about 1940. Early in the Second World War a chapel was built at Crail Airfield for the service personnel. (Credit: George Cowie / University of St Andrews)
A late seventeenth-century French engraving of the Scottish Parliament. The different estates which made up the parliament are shown in procession at the bottom of the page and sitting at the top. (Credit: National Galleries of Scotland)
A late medieval image of St Andrew with his traditional X-shaped cross. (Credit: University of St Andrews)
A fourteenth-century illustration of plague burials in Tournai. Similarly rushed burials probably took place in Fife. (Credit: Pierart dou Tielt / Wikimedia)By the tenth century St Andrews had become one of the most important churches in the kingdom of the Scots. In 965 the brother of the King of Tara died…
St Andrews was an important religious centre from an early date. There seems to have already been a monastery here in 747 when the death of the abbot…
In the late 1960s the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland agreed that women could be ordained as ministers on the same terms as men. The first…
Since the sixteenth century there had been no cardinals resident in Scotland. However, in 1969 Gordon Gray, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of St…
The Second Vatican Council (held in the Vatican in Rome) sought to modernise Roman Catholicism. It agreed major changes to Roman Catholic worship. One…
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Presbyterian opposition to Christmas reduced. In 1958 Christmas became a public holiday in Scotland.…