Alternative Names Newburgh, Old Parish Church; St Katherine's Chapel
Site type CHAPEL, CHURCH
Canmore ID 30076
Site Number NO21NW 2
NGR NO 2340 1831
Council FIFE
Parish NEWBURGH
Former Region FIFE
Former District NORTH EAST FIFE
Former County FIFE

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Archaeological Notes

NO21NW 2 2340 1831

(NO 2340 1831) Church (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1956)

For present parish church (NO 2440 1833), see NO21NW 53.

NMRS REFERENCE:
ARCHITECT: William Burn, 1833
This Category C Listed church was demolished in early 1967.
(Undated) information from Demolitions catalogue held in RCAHMS library.

St Katherine's Chapel is mentioned in a charter dated 1470. It was rebuilt 1508-13 and dedicated to St Duthac Katherine and Mary Magdalene. It was a narrow oblong red sandstone building, having no architectural ornament except a belfry in the W gable. Newburgh became a parish in 1622, and the chapel, served as the parish church, until taken down in 1832 when the present church was built (1876).
A Laing 1876; Fasti Eccles Scot 1950.

No trace of either church. Site now occupied by modern housing.
Visited by OS (R D) 18 May 1970.

Architectural Notes

Hay, G (1957a) The architecture of Scottish post-Reformation churches, 1560-1843, Oxford
Page(s): 258 Held at RCAHMS F.5.31.HAY

Laing, A (1876) Lindores Abbey and the burgh of Newburgh, Edinburgh
Page(s): 178, 185, 187-8, 202 Held at RCAHMS D.4.3.LIN

Scott, H et al (eds.) (1915-61) Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, Revision Edinburgh
Page(s): Vol. 8, 450 Held at RCAHMS C.3.2.FES