Spring Parish Church And Graveyard Collessie Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring 4K travel video of the parish church and graveyard on visit to Collessie, Fife. The present church at Collessie was opened in 1839 and little has changed since then. The building replaced an earlier one which by the 1830s was so cold and damp as to be beyond repair. During the building of the present church the villagers of Collessie pulled it down as it was being built because it was being built over graves and the Riot Act had to be read to allow the church building to be finished. The Disruption of 1843 resulted in the minister and most of the congregation leaving and establishing a Free Church at Giffordstown. Then in 1882 the congregation moved to the newly built St. Mary’s UF Church in Ladybank. Collessie kirkyard has been a burial site since the 12th Century but is no longer in use apart from those who already own a lair. When the Abbey of Lindores was founded circa 1200 the monks were granted the patronage and revenues of the parish of Collessie by Sir Roger de Quincey of Kinloch. In 1243 the church was rededicated by Bishop David de Bernham of St. Andrews but the site may even have been used for worship in pre Christian times. Collessie was on the pilgrim route to St Andrews.

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