In brief
A slender market-cross shaft with a capital dated 1736 stands against the parish church wall.
Quick facts
- Date
- Seventeenth-century shaft; capital dated 1736
- Authorship / patronage
- Mason not identified in the designation account
- Designation
- Listed building, Category B (LB39869)
- OS grid reference
- NO 54901 02594
A surviving burgh marker
The shaft is partly circular and partly octagonal, with an egg-and-dart capital dated 1736. HES dates the shaft to the seventeenth century and records that its top is incomplete. The surviving pieces therefore have different dates; 1736 should not be assigned without qualification to the whole cross.
Listing and former scheduling
The cross remains Category B listed under LB39869. HES records that it was descheduled on 13 May 2016. Fife Council’s 2013 conservation appraisal predates that decision and still calls it a scheduled monument; that older status should not be repeated as current.
Viewing
The March 2019 photograph shows the cross against the harled church wall, between windows and beside the pavement. Its capital and changes in the shaft’s shape are more informative than an assumption that the entire medieval market arrangement survives around it.
Sources and further reading
- Historic Environment Scotland — LB39869 — Active Category B listing; seventeenth-century shaft, 1736 capital and explicit note of descheduling on 13 May 2016.
- Fife Council — Pittenweem Conservation Area Appraisal, August 2013 — Raised beach and harbour street pattern, burgh development, fishing work, coal and salt industry, and railway. Its 2013 scheduling information is superseded by the current HES designation entries.
Explore Pittenweem
The Pittenweem Place entry connects the harbour, market streets, priory and shore-side houses.
Location
OS grid reference NO 54901 02594 · Location confidence: High — official HES mapped National Grid Reference transformed from OSGB36 to WGS84; catalogue point, not a boundary · Select the marker to open its satellite view in Google Maps. On desktop, drag Pegman (the yellow figure) onto a blue road. On mobile, turn on the Street View layer and tap a blue road. Other photo markers may be user-contributed.
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