View from E of St Athernase Parish Church, Leuchars.
SC 740631
Description View from E of St Athernase Parish Church, Leuchars.
Date c. 1890
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 740631
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of F 2023
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. It is topped by an octagonal bell-tower, built c.1700, which terminates in a domed stone roof surmounted by a lead weathercock. The apse, along with the chancel, is the only part of the original Romanesque building to survive, the nave being added in the 19th century. The apse is vaulted, and its original timber roof above was removed in the 17th century and replaced by the bell-turret, borne on the vault of the apse. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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