from the monastery in 1549, and another in 1554.[1] The church is now modernised, but the old tower (Fig. 1504) is a fair specimen of the keep-like structures so often erected in connection with Scottish churches in the sixteenth century.
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Fig. 1504.—Anstruther Wester.
Anstruther Easter was, before the Reformation, in the parish of Kilrenny, and was disjoined from it by the General Assembly, with the consent of the bailies and council of the town, in 1639. In 1640 Anstruther Easter was erected into a separate parish, and the reason assigned in the Act was "the Burgh being a part of the parish of Kilrenny a mile distant of deep evil way in winter and rainy times."[2]
A proposal to build a church at Anstruther Easter had thus been in contemplation for some time, and in 1636 an agreement was come to regarding it between Mr. Colin Adams, the first minister of the parish, and the bailies and council. The new church was erected, and "ten years later a steeple was added after a Dutch model."[3]
