Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the interior of the Parish Church in Crail on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the East Neuk Of Fife. There has been a church at this location since at least the twelfth century. The earliest known parish church on this site was a two celled Norman building. It was consecrated in 1243 to Saint Maelrubha and after a successful petition by the Prioress of Haddington, became Collegiate in 1517, by which time it was known as St. Mary's. Between its foundation and 1815 there were many modifications and additions. In 1815 Robert Balfour undertook the first major renovation and a second was carried out by Judith Campbell in 1963. A Pictish Class III Cross Slab stone in the Parish Church in Crail was retrieved in 1815, having been used as a paving stone in the floor for more than fifty years. This stone carved with animals and other emblems is probably the Old Cross of Crail. Pilgrims flocked to the town hoping to find a cure for their illnesses. The cross was reputed to have great healing powers.
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