Spring Drive To Parish Church And Graveyard Kilconquhar East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring morning road trip drive, with Scottish music, to the parish church and graveyard on visit to Kilconquhar in the East Neuk Of Fife. Kilconquhar Parish Church is within the Church of Scotland. The historic church building is still in regular use; it is an exact, but larger scale, copy, of Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church in Midlothian, has an unusually tall tower for such a small parish. The new church was planned in 1818 and designed by R & R Dickson in 1819, based on Cockpen Church which they had overseen the construction of, following the death of its designer, their employer Richard Crichton. The church opened in 1821. Women accused of being witches used to be thrown in Kilconquhar Loch, and if not drowned, this was seen as proof that they were witches and then they were burned at the stake! The spot where the church stands is thought to have been a Druidical place of worship and a burial ground long before the time of Christianity.

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