Crail, Parish Church. View from south east.

Description Crail, Parish Church. View from south east.

Date c. 1890

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 739195

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 1941

Scope and Content Nave and Tower, Crail Parish Church, Crail, Fife, from the south-east Crail Parish Church stands within a tree-lined churchyard on the north side of Marketgate at the eastern end of the town. It was built in the late 12th century as a simple Romanesque building consisting of nave and chancel, and was gradually altered and enlarged over the centuries. The Scottish photographer, Erskine Beveridge, photographed the church on a visit to Crail c.1890. The nave, rebuilt in the early 13th century when the south and north side aisles were added, was reconstructed in 1815 by Robert Balfour, who added a new roof sloping continuously to the raised wall-head of the south nave aisle, and inserted tall pointed windows with Gothic-style glazing in a new south aisle wall. The tall west tower, built in the early 13th century, is divided by string-courses into six stages. The top belfry stage with twin lancet windows and a corbelled parapet was added to the tower in the early 16th century along with the squat octagonal stone spire. The church was dedicated in 1243 by Bishop David De Bernham of St Andrews to the Celtic Saint Maelrubha of Applecross. It later became known as St Mary's, and in 1517, when it belonged the Cistercian nunnery of the Order of St Clare at Haddington, it became a collegiate church. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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