Parish Church On History Visit To Boarhills East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K late Autumn travel video of the Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Boarhills in the East Neuk of Fife. Boarhills Church lies south east of St Andrews, close to the A917. It is oriented east west and was built south west of the village of Boarhills by the local architect, George Rae between 1866 and 1868. The Reverend Robert Skinner, an Episcopal minister writing in 1870, describes the discovery of stone cists at the site of a new chapel at Chesterhill, which is almost certainly the church at Boarhills. The presence of the cists suggests that the graveyard is older than the present building and that there was probably an earlier building on the site. There are graveyards to the north and south, the latter still in use. All of the gravestones face East. George Rae was born in St Andrews on 1 October 1811 and was the first native St Andrews citizen to become an architect in the town. He came to architecture through the family craft of wheel wrighting, repairing wooden wheels, rather than through academic study. The first record of Rae as an architect is from the town council minutes of 1844, where he was consulted on the development of South Bell Street. Rae died on February 5th 1869 at Kinloch Manse after a long illness and is buried in the grounds of St Andrews Cathedral. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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