View of Church from grounds of Denburn House

Description View of Church from grounds of Denburn House

Date c. 1900

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

Catalogue Number SC 739344

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 5167

Scope and Content Garden, Denburn House, No 1 Marketgate, Crail, Fife Denburn House, an early 18th-century house that incorporates part of a 17th-century house, stands within a large walled garden on the north side of Marketgate. The Scottish photographer, Erskine Beveridge, photographed the garden on a visit to Crail c.1890. This pretty country garden borders the wooded churchyard of Crail Parish Church to the west. It is laid out informally around a grass tennis court, and has a well-positioned garden seat in the south-facing corner. It is overlooked by the early 13th-century church tower (possibly the oldest in Fife) whose top belfry stage and squat octagonal stone spire were added in the early 16th century. Denburn House is one of several large houses that were built in the 18th and early 19th centuries on the north side of Marketgate for rich merchants or as dower houses for local estates. The gardens were planted with fruit trees, particularly apple and pear, to form orchards which encircled the churchyard. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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