Archaeology Notes
Event ID 689557
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NO50SE 10.00 56444 03532
NO50SE 10.01 NO 56459 03532 Churchyard
Anstruther Wester church is dedicated to St Nicolas. The tower is a fair specimen of the keep-like structures often erected in connection with Scottish churches in the 16th century. (For earlier church (pre-1177) see NO50SE 20).
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1897
(NO 5643 0352) Anstruther Wester Parish Church stands in its graveyard beside the harbour and consists of an entirely modernised nave and a W tower surmounted with a spire. The tower is a 16th century bell tower. On the S wall of the church is a panel dated 1598. In the churchyard are several 17th century table stones and a stone coffin in which a recess is formed for the head.
RCAHMS 1933
As described. The church is now used as a hall.
Visited by OS (JP) 28 May 1974
