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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PRIORY (Remains of) Priory (Remains of)
Priory (Remains of)
Priory (Remains of)
Revd. [Revernd] William Merson
James Inglis Esq.
Mr. J. Webster
Mr. J. Bowman
020 [Situation] In the Village of Crail
All that remains of this building is just Sufficient to point out where it once Stood. Its Site is near the Parish Church Close by the Sea shore, And there can be no doubt the encroachments of the sea have caused its gradual disappearance. From the Number of human bones found, it is supposed a grave Yard was here.

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35 Parish of Crail. Plan 20B. Trace 7

"It is generally believed that Crail was at one time the Seat of a priory dedicated to St. Rufus and when the last Stat. [Statistical] Acct. [Account] was written a ruinous gable with Gothic windows was Standing and bore the name of the Prior Walls. That gable was thrown down by the Sea about the year 1801 and there now only remains Some of the foundations of the outworKs to point out where it Stood. The adjoining ground however retains the name of the Prior's Croft And a Well near the Old building is still Called the Briery or Priory Well. As this is not mentioned among the religious Suppressed at the reformation Some have doubted the Common tradition but Leighton in his Fife illustrated, States that according to General Hutton there is an old manuscript inventory Among the Harleian manuscripts in the British Museum in which the following Charter is mentioned. "To the Prior of Crail of the Second teinds of the lands between the waters of Neithe and Nith." There was also a chapel dedicated to St. Rufe which had teinds belonging to it both parsonage and vicarage but its name is now only to be found in ancient Charters." Stat. Acct [Statistical Account] 1845. p. [page] 964

[page signed] James Ireland c/a [Civil Assistant]
5 July 1853

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