Crail, Parish Church. View of Church and churchyard from east.

Description Crail, Parish Church. View of Church and churchyard from east.

Date c. 1890

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

Catalogue Number SC 739194

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 1939

Scope and Content 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 (left), 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 aisle, and inserted tall pointed windows with Gothic-style glazing into a new south aisle wall. The tall west tower, built in the early 13th century, had its top belfry stage, corbelled parapet and squat octagonal stone spire added in the early 16th century. Very little of the original Romanesque building remains, except for the north wall of the chancel, and a similar string-coursed fragment in the angle of the south junction of chancel and nave. The church was consecrated by the Bishop of St Andrews in 1243, and the marks of a consecration cross can still be seen beside a small window in the west gable of the south aisle. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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