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English: St Monans Church. Another view of the Kirk on the western edge of the village and the Fife Coastal Path winding along the shore towards Elie.
This much photographed church stands down by the shore where the Inverie Burn meets the sea. The Burn seems to mark the westward boundary of St Monans as no village buildings stand on the western bank apart from the Kirk. A Church is thought to have stood on this site from the early days of Christianity when the Scots sent out missionary's for the Celtic Church from their homelands in Ulster and Dalriada. Around 1365 whilst crossing the Forth to 497108 King David II and his wife Margaret were caught up in a gale. In return for safe passage David II vowed to build a new Church at St Monans. Sir William Dishington was commissioned and around 1370 his design took shape. His Church was according to some meant to built in the shape of the cross but the staff part or nave was never added probably due to the cost of extracting the western side of site. If true this would account for the unusual eight sided building that stands here today. The Church was burnt by an English raiding party in the late 1540s After a rehash of the parish boundary's in 1646 St Monans moved from the Parish of Kilconquhar into the Parish of Abercrombie and the Auld Kirk, now under new management, since the Reformation took over from 42559 as the Parish Church. All was not well with the fabric, its gradual decline from the firing and years of not being funded as the Parish Church continued until a partial restoration was forced on the Parish in the 1820s. By the 1940s it was again in a poor state of repair. A full restoration was undertaken in the 1950s to make this building what it is today. |
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| Author | Jim Bain |
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