Interior Of Parish Church With Music On History Visit To Kilconquhar East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip of the interior of the Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Kilconquhar, from the Scottish Gaelic: Cill Dhúnchadha or Scottish Gaelic: Cill Chonchaidh in the East Neuk of Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. James Drummond was a seventeenth century Scottish covenanting field preacher who began preaching in Kilconquhar, Fife towards the end of March 1691. He had previously been jailed in the tolbooth in Edinburgh in 1674, after he was arrested and imprisoned for preaching house and field conventicles. He stayed in prison a short time because he confessed and assured the committee that he would not continue. He was given a conditional discharge on 21 July 1674. He was re-arrested in Glasgow and summoned to appear before a committee of the Privy Council in Edinburgh. This time he refused to avoid holding conventicles and so was jailed on the Bass Rock from 28 January 1677 until 5 October 1677, when he was given a conditional release to Kilmarnock and afterwards to Kintyre. He attended the General Meeting of Presbyterian ministers after the Toleration, on 6 July 1687. In 1688 it was reported to the council that he had been preaching in a malt barn near Stow. The raised chancel area to the east of this Kirk has a communion table, two benches. an octagonal font, a lectern, and an elaborately carved pulpit. 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. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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