A small ruin consisting of three arches of an old church, which stood on the ancient site before the present modern structure was erected in the immediate vicinity. The village of Kilconquhar is situated on a large loch about one mile and a half north-west from Elie.
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Fig. 1381.—Kilconquhar Church. View from South-West.
The name is derived from the ancient Saint Connacher. There is little of the history of the church preserved. It was granted in 1200 by Duncan, Earl of Fife, to the Convent of North Berwick, and in 1266, after a controversy between the Laird of Kilcomath and the prioress of North
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Fig. 1382.—Kilconquhar Church. Plan.
Berwick regarding the right of patronage, it was resigned into the hands of the Convent.[1]
The three arches (Fig. 1381) are all that now survive of the old church.
- ↑ East Neuk of Fife, p. 92.
