General view of Main Street Kilrenny including Parish Kirk

Description General view of Main Street Kilrenny including Parish Kirk

Date c. 1889

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

Catalogue Number SC 740619

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 2013

Scope and Content Parish Church, Kilrenny, Fife Kilrenny, a tiny village built around its parish church, sits near the eastern tip of the Fife peninsula between the fishing ports of Anstruther and Crail. The Scottish photographer, Erskine Beveridge, photographed the village on a visit to Fife in 1889. The church, rebuilt in 1807-8 after the original building was found to be in dangerous state, is a plain Gothic-style rectangular structure designed by the local architect, Alexander Leslie. The rubble-built north-west tower, all that remains of the earlier church, dates from the 15th century, and the corbelled parapet and octagonal slated spire were added in the 16th century. The history of the church dates from the 9th century when a chapel was built in Kilrenny dedicated to St Ethernan, a companion of St Adrian, first bishop of St Andrews. In the 12th century a larger church was built near or on the site by the monks of Dryburgh Abbey who were the landlords of the area, and re-dedicated in 1243, although the record does not give the name of the saint. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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