St Monance, Mid Shore. View from South West

Description St Monance, Mid Shore. View from South West

Date c. 1890

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

Catalogue Number SC 747713

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 2057

Scope and Content Mid Shore, St Monans, Fife St Monans, a small fishing village with a natural tidal harbour, is typical of many small coastal communities the East Neuk of Fife. This photograph, showing the line of old houses at the sea's edge, was taken c.1890 by Erskine Beveridge. Mid Shore, a broad street of 18th- and early 19th-century houses, follows the line of the harbour wall. Some of the houses are roofed with pantiles (left), roof-tiles curved to form an S-shaped section and fitted to overlap. Others have tall, chimney-headed gables to the shore (left), and are whitewashed, with contrasting painted margins round the windows. The house in the centre has graffiti on its crowstepped gable to the west. The distinctive curved pantiles, which add colour and vitality to otherwise simple houses, were a traditional roofing material in the East Neuk of Fife where the brick and tile works exploited local deposits of clay. They were less expensive than slate, and equally capable of giving protection against the occasional battering by gales, rain and sea spray. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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