Kilrenny. General view of Main Street including Parish Kirk.

Description Kilrenny. General view of Main Street including Parish Kirk.

Date 1889

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

Catalogue Number SC 740620

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 2014

Scope and Content 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 village, dominated by its 15th-century church tower, has a very short main street, lined on the south (right) by 18th-century crowstepped houses, with pantiled roofs and external stairs leading to the upper floor. The slate-roofed, two-storeyed schoolhouse on the north side (left), partially concealed behind its tree-lined walled garden, was designed and built by William Lees in 1839-40. The distinctive curved pantiles, which add colour and vitality to otherwise simple cottages, were a traditional roofing material in the East Neuk of Fife where the brick and tile works exploited local deposits of clay. The first few rows of a pantiled roof were often covered with the more costly slate, covering the vulnerable wall-head and giving additional protection against both wind and rain. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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