Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive To Parish Church Inverkeithing Fife

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of a road trip drive along the High Street to the parish church of St. Peter on ancestry visit to Inverkething in West Fife, Scotland. There has been a church on this site since the fifth century, when St. Erat, who was a follower of St Ninian, established a small church here. This was later replaced by a Norman church in the twelfth century, but it appears that St. Erat continued as the dedication.The church and its associated lands were granted to Dunfermline abbey in the twelfth century. After this, in the early thirteenth century, the Norman church was replaced by a Gothic building. The tower on the western side of the church was added in the fourteenth century. The church was destroyed by fire in 1825 and replaced by the present building. The four sided lead spire was added in 1852, having replaced the earlier 1731 spire which was probably stone built. The four gabled dormers which encase clock faces were added in 1883.

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