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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site of BLACK FRIARS' MONASTERY AND CHAPEL | Black Friars Chapel and Monastery (Site of) | Mr. Shaw Writer, Cupar Mr. Barclay Sheriffs Clerk Cupar |
[situation] Between the County buildings and St. James's Episcopal Chapel. This applies to the place where the Monastery and Chapel belonging to the Order of Grey Friars stood. It was destroyed at or about the time of the Reformation. It is said to have been at that time of considerable extent. The interior of the building was taken away at some later period, the outside remodelled and made into a [Mansion] in which resided Lady Betty Anstruther to which she gave the name of Belgrave House However recent improvements have done away with it also, and St. Catherine St. for the most part is erected on the site of the Old Monastery |
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38) Parish of Cupar Sheet 5 Trace 7.[Quotation]
"Under this hill, (School Hill) on the south stood a convent of Dominican or Blackfriars, belonging originally to the Island of May, and afterwards transferred to St. Andrews which like its more warlike neighbour has now been completely removed. That part of the Chapel "built of cut freestone", which at the writing of the last Account is said to have been standing, has been taken away to make room for a very handsome street Near or on the very site of the Chapel of the Convent, stands now the Episcopal Chapel St. James's which is a very handsome building, meant to form part of the street when completed. And lately when the grounds of the Convent were trenched to answer the purposes of a kitchen - garden, many receptacles of the dead were disturbed, and their skeletons dug up." Stat: Acct: [Statistical Account] of Fifeshire Page 5.
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"At the south foot of the Castle-hill was a convent of Dominicans or Black-friers with a fine Chapel where now Mr. Melville of Balgarvie's house is. The constabulary(as we have said) was given by Duncan Earl of Fife to the Lords of Ferny but the town of Cupar purchased it sometime ago." Sibbald Hist. [History] of Fife p. [page] 399.
[Footnote] Not written on six inch plan in Consequence of to little space.
[page signed] John Early c,a [Civilian Assistant]
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