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are still attached. The museum commemorates rural life of a bygone era. The museum began in 1968 in the renovation and conversion of the former weigh-house and adjoining cottages through an initiative by Cupar & North Fife
Preservation Society. A fundraising campaign in 2003-4 enabled a £395,000
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in 2005, although the three church buildings are retained. There is a service in Ceres every Sunday at 11.15 am except on
Remembrance Sunday (10:45am) and the fifth Sunday of any month, when a united service is held in rotation at Ceres, Kemback or Springfield at 11am.
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Within the vestibule of the church a late medieval effigy of a knight which was originally in the ancient church is preserved on a modern stand. It is extremely well preserved and shows interesting details of 15th-century armour.
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landed in the parish after his first flight in
Scotland in 1785. Fetched from a field near Pitscottie, he was greeted in the village where his flag was carried in procession and the church bell rung in his honour.
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has been added by a different hand and appears to be a joke aimed an intemperate provost; the overall frame is indeed 16th or early 17th century and contains a worn but highly interesting hunting scene.
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and is called "Lady Boyd's House" as she subsequently married the 6th Lord Boyd of
Kilmarnock. However, the vault contains the grave of
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are common in East Fife. Suggestions that the name originated from an early dedication of the local kirk, such as to "Saint Siris",
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The Fife Folk Museum is located in the village in a range of buildings including the old weigh-house where grain was weighed at a
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The village is dominated by the Parish Church. It has what is possibly the shortest High Street in
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were added in the 1850s. Apart from the addition of electric lighting and two early 20th-century
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granted the village permission to hold them in commemoration of its men's participation in the
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in 1314. It was erected on the six hundredth anniversary of the battle, in 1914.
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The Bow Butts shortly before the start of the Ceres
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The current parish church was built in 1806 to a design by
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in the cemetery which was established by the widow of
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504:(visited by the local pipe band in the 1970s) and
353:Ceres is one of a few Scottish villages to have a
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512:(with which gifts were exchanged in the 1990s).
461:for locking up minor offenders and the village
902:"DSA Building/Design Report: Fife Folk Museum"
567:, they are the oldest free games in Scotland.
457:on market days. The building also served as a
814:(1585–1670), lawyer, statesman and author of
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670:. This united parish was further united with
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733:(d. 1599) minister of Ceres 1578 to 1599,
831:United States Declaration of Independence
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743:(1832–1913), businessman and benefactor
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876:"Ceres, High Street, Fife Folk Museum"
927:"Preserving our history for 50 years"
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957:The Place Names of Fife and Kinross
955:Volume Two (Shaun Tyas, 2008). In
646:John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford
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808:(born 1967), parish minister
789:Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie
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659:Ceres Church is within the
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