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

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the old parish church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the graveyard in Kilconquhar, Scots; Kinneuchar, Scottish Gaelic: Cill Dhúnchadha or Scottish Gaelic: Cill Chonchaidh, East Neuk of Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. In 1820, when the new church was built, the foundations of the old church were found fifteen feet below ground level. he church was consecrated in 1243 by Bishop de Bernham. In 1499 Patrick Dunbar, Laird of Kilconquhar, set up an altar to Our Lady of Pity. The church is thought to be of Culdee origin, the suggested derivation being Kil-Conneuchar, i.e. the cell of Conacher. It was granted to the convent of North Berwick in 1200, and was re-dedicated in 1243. All that remains of the old parish church is a fragment of the nave arcade, which stands in the graveyard to the east of the modern church. It consists of three arches of indeterminate date, each some 12 feet in width. The piers and responds are round on plan, as are the bases and capitals, which are respectively chamfered and hollow-chamfered, while the arches are chamfered and rebated. One of the corbels, which carried the beam supporting the roof of the aisle survives, at the east end. The arcade is incorporated in a burial enclosure, part of the back wall of which may have belonged to the aisle and, if so, indicates its extent. The Culdees, Irish: Céilí Dé, lit. meaning Spouses of God were members of ascetic Christian monastic and eremitical communities of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England in the Middle Ages. Appearing first in Ireland and subsequently in Scotland, attached to cathedral or collegiate churches, they lived in monastic fashion though not taking monastic vows. In Scotland, Culdees were more numerous than in Ireland: thirteen monastic establishments were peopled by them, eight in connection with cathedrals. The Ionan monks had been expelled by the Pictish king Nechtan son of Derile in 717. There is no mention of any Culdees at any Columban monastery, either in Ireland or in Scotland, until long after Columba's time: in 1164 that Culdees are mentioned as being in Iona but in a subordinate position. Culdee priests were allowed to marry. 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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