Leuchars, St Athernase Parish Church. Detail.
SC 740636
Description Leuchars, St Athernase Parish Church. Detail.
Date c. 1890
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 740636
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of F 2024
Scope and Content Apse, Parish Church, Leuchars, Fife The Parish Church of Leuchars is dramatically sited on a knoll in the centre of the village. Although the rest of the church is comparatively modern, the chancel and apse are probably the best examples of Romanesque buildings in Scotland. The Scottish photographer, Erskine Beveridge, photographed the church c.1890. The apse, dating from the 12th century, forms a semi-circle against the east wall of the chancel. It is richly decorated externally, with two tiers of blind arcading separated by an ornamental string-course carved in a saw-tooth pattern. The arches are all round-headed, with rich carved decoration, and are borne on coupled shafts in the lower tier, and paired shafts with a broad fillet between in the upper. The wall-head is brought forward on corbels carved with the heads of oxen, rams, monsters and human grotesques. Romanesque (called Norman in England) was a style of architecture current in the 11th and 12th centuries. Typical features include round arches, thick walls, massive cylindrical columns and vaulting, and the basic pattern of the square and the circle occurring throughout. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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