Leuchars / Lochris / Locres / Luachar
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Victorian Romanesque nave extension (1857)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stanley Howe, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Stanley Howe [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4556915] [accessed 9 October 2019]
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view of church exterior - apse - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Athernase church, Leuchars. The north wall of the apse, showing the remarkable Romanesque decoration of blind arcades and grotesque heads."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Derek Harper, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2008 by Derek Harper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1037002] [accessed 9 October 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - apse - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sculpture in the apse of Leuchars Kirk"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kim Traynor, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2013 by Kim Traynor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Athernase_Church,_Leuchars,_Fife,_Scotland.JPG] [accessed 9 October 2019]
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view of church interior - apse - detail
Scene Description: one of the bases of the columns on the east wall of the apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kim Traynor, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 22 October 2011 by Kim Traynor [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2677550] [accessed 9 October 2019]
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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman apse of Leuchars Kirk"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kim Traynor, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2011 by Kim Traynor [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2677546] [accessed 9 October 2019]
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view of church interior - east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an engraving by R[obert] W[illiam] Billings' The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (Edinburgh: W Paterson, 1852) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leuchars_East_End_ca_1850.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 22395LEU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Kirk of St. Athernase [C. of S.]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Athernase [aka Itharnán?]
Church Notes: 12thC [ca. 1170?] church; belfry ca. 1700; restored mid-19thC
Church Address: Schoolhill St, Leuchars, St Andrews KY16 0EP, UK
Site Location: Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A919 [aka Main St], 2 km N of Guardbridge and the A91, 8-10 km NW of St Andres
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Historic Environment Scotland [LB8842] notes: "1183-7 (?) consecrated 1244. Romanesque chancel of approx square plan [...] Chancel re-opened into nave and other repairs and renovations, Reginald Fairlie 1914, font also by him 1922." A 2015 article by Carole Cusack, in the Sydney Society for Scottish History Journal, Vol. 15, 2015, pp. 97-122, mentions no font in this church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30V 507153 6248673
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 56.38263, -2.88417
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 56° 22′ 57.47″ N, 2° 53′ 3.01″ W
REFERENCES
- Cusack, Carole, "Two Scottish Romanesque Parish Churches: St Athernase, Leuchars and St Cuthbert, Dalmeny", 15 (2015), Sydney Society for Scottish History Journal, 2015, pp. 97-122; [on the church itself]