Crail Custom House is an historic building in
Crail,
Fife
Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...
, Scotland. Dating to the late 17th century, it is a Category A
listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
.
Inscriptions on the buildings eastern and western skewputts reference Robert Wood (a
ship captain
A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel.Aragon and Messner, 2001, p.3. The captain is responsible for the safe and efficie ...
)
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– University of St Andrews and Helen Daw.[
]
Gallery
Ursa Major shown on a carved stone, c.1700, Crail, Fife.jpg, Ursa Major representing navigation, shown on a carved stone, located above the main door
Inscribed east Skewputt.JPG, Inscription in the eastern skewputt. An inscription on the western skewputt has the initials "HP" and an anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal , used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ''ancora'', which itself comes from the Greek ἄγ ...
See also
* List of listed buildings in Crail, Fife
* List of Category A listed buildings in Fife
This is a list of Category A listed buildings in the Fife council area in east-central Scotland.
In Scotland, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of "special architectural or histo ...
References
Category A listed buildings in Fife
Custom houses in the United Kingdom
Listed buildings in Crail
17th-century establishments in Scotland
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