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Parish Church And Tolbooth Steeple, High Street, Pittenweem

A Category A Listed Building in Pittenweem, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.2138 / 56°12'49"N

Longitude: -2.7285 / 2°43'42"W

OS Eastings: 354912

OS Northings: 702601

OS Grid: NO549026

Mapcode National: GBR 2T.DJY2

Mapcode Global: WH7ST.12ZQ

Plus Code: 9C8V677C+GH

Entry Name: Parish Church And Tolbooth Steeple, High Street, Pittenweem

Listing Name: Pittenweem Parish Church

Listing Date: 18 August 1972

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 385742

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39868

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Pittenweem Tolbooth

ID on this website: 200385742

Location: Pittenweem

County: Fife

Town: Pittenweem

Electoral Ward: East Neuk and Landward

Traditional County: Fife

Tagged with: Architectural structure Tolbooth

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Description

1588 4-storey tower with vaulted basement (originally the tolbooth) and stair turret, ashlar bell-chamber with balustraded parapet and stone spire added c 1630; church may incorporate "dortour" of Priory, inset stone 1532: originally simple harled rectangle, remodelled and extended to T-plan by addition of N aisle with idiosyncratically detailed stugged

ashlar gable front, 1882, James Brown (Pittenweem) architect 1633 Putensen bell, Last Supper panel in vestry.

Statement of Interest

For tower. Church now of limited interest, particularly on N side. Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Items 1-186 (excluding 27, 28, 84-8 and 171, 172) form a single B group.

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