Leuchars, St Athernase Parish Church. View from north east.
SC 740640
Description Leuchars, St Athernase Parish Church. View from north east.
Date c. 1890
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 740640
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of F 2026
Scope and Content Parish Church, Leuchars, Fife, from the north-east 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 church has a tall, plain nave (right), built in 1857-8, and a lower, almost square chancel (centre) and a still lower apse (left), both dating from the 12th century. Both chancel and apse are richly decorated externally, with two tiers of blind arcading separated by an ornamental string-course. On top of the apse is an octagonal bell-tower, built c.1700, which terminates in a domed stone roof topped by a lead weathercock. The general arrangement of the 12th-century church was strikingly similar to other Romanesque churches in Scotland, such as Dalmeny in Lothian, and St Baldred's Church at Tyninghame (Lothian). Like them, the wall-heads at Leuchars are stepped, with that of the chancel being lower than that of the nave but higher than that of the apse. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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