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Crail, Parish Church. Interior view.

SC 739202

Description Crail, Parish Church. Interior view.

Date c. 1890

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

Catalogue Number SC 739202

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 1951

Scope and Content Nave, Crail Parish Church, Crail, Fife, from the north aisle Crail Parish Church is one of the very few surviving churches of medieval aisled form in Fife, and one of the few in Scotland outside the major burghs. 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. This photograph of the interior was taken by Erskine Beveridge c.1890. The nave, with stark whitewashed walls, has, at each side, an arcade of pointed arches borne on five circular Romanesque piers with moulded capitals. The chestnut box pews which line the floor of the church were installed in 1815 by Robert Balfour who swept away the old lofts or galleries of the seven trade incorporations of the burgh that once filled the interior. Crail played a significant part in the turmoil of the Reformation. The Scottish reformer, John Knox preached in the church in 1559 'against popery and idolatry', and stirred up such fervour and unrest in the congregation that 'they fell immediately to the pulling down of altars and images, and destroyed all the monuments which were abused to idolatry in the town. The like they did the next day in Anstruther, and from thence came directly to Saint Andrews'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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