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Tour Scotland Photographs St Athernase Church Leuchars


Tour Scotland photograph of St Athernase Church, Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. The 12th century St Athernase Church is one of the finest surviving examples of an unaisled Romanesque parish church in Scotland, or indeed Britain as a whole, with two levels of blind arcading in the Norman style running round the exterior, surmounted by a corbel table with heads of various designs. The interior has elaborate chancel and apse arches, and a series of powerful beast-heads on the corbels supporting the ribs of the internal vaults. The nave has unfortunately been rebuilt. The apse roof is crowned by a small bell-tower added in the 17th century.





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Tour Scotland Photograph Bell Tower St Athernase Church Leuchars


Tour Scotland photograph of the Bell Tower on St Athernase Church in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. The belltower was added to the church in 1700. It consists of a rounded tower and an octagonal bellcote with a domed roof. The tower has a blind arch to the north and south and a blank frame to the east. The bellcote has deeply splayed arches in every face and is topped by a weathervane.



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