View from W showing part of W front

Description View from W showing part of W front

Date 1979

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 793502

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content High Street, Anstruther Wester, Fife, from west This view from the west, taken in 1979, shows the entrance front of the manse. The porch is a later addition, and incorporates in its parapet two sculptured stones, probably from an older building. The street to the left leads to the harbour, now a mere fragment. The manse was later owned by a sea captain. Anstruther Wester became a burgh of barony in 1541, 31 years before Anstruther Easter, but the latter proved more successful, and the former is now effectively a suburb of the latter, though it still retains, as here, something of the flavour of its mercantile past. The range of buildings of which this is a part line the route from the quay wall of the former harbour of Anstruther Wester to the rest of the burgh. They are mainly of mid-18th-century date, though several incorporate earlier masonry. This one is the old manse of 1703. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH130

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