Doors Open Days - Fife East
Scotland's annual Doors Open Days festival gives you free access to lots of fascinating buildings across Fife on selected dates in September!
About Doors Open Days - Fife East
Doors Open Days is Scotland’s largest free festival that celebrates heritage and the built environment, new and old. Every September, you can explore hundreds of fascinating buildings across Scotland for free. Some open up once a year, some just once in a lifetime.
Doors Open Days is a national event run by the Scottish Civic Trust. Information about the national programme, including event listings, can be found at www.doorsopendays.org.uk.
Programme Highlights:
1940s House
5 September 2025
6 September 2025
Book a tour to visit a 1940s time capsule and experience all the sights, sounds, furniture, furnishings, appliances, and smells of a bygone domestic life.
Auld Kirk, Tayport
7 September 2025
A religious site since 1607, the Auld Kirk’s present structure dates from 1794. It is one of the oldest buildings in Tayport and an important local landmark, in particular its distinctive leaning clock tower.
Boarhills Doocot
6 September 2025
7 September 2025
Visit to see inside the 17thC lectern doocot, owned by the Boarhills and Dunino Community Trust and recently extensively restored from a ruinous condition. Guides will be there to talk about its history and how the project was conceived and carried out.
Bogward Doocot, St Andrews
7 September 2025
Join us on Sunday 7th September for an interesting peek inside the Doocot, a wander around the Lade Braes and to find out more about our preservation goals, events and membership.
Cambo Gardens, Kingsbarns
6 September 2025
7 September 2025
Explore the designed landscape of Cambo and discover some of the stories of the Erskine’s who have made Cambo their home for over 300 years, and for Doors Open Days we are offering guided tours throughout the weekend.
Crail Church
6 September 2025
7 September 2025
Crail Parish Church has its origins in the second half of the twelfth century, with the bell tower being added later in the 13th Century.
Crail Museum
6 September 2025
7 September 2025
13 September 2025
14 September 2025
See our displays about the long history of this mediaeval Royal Burgh and its trading port, to learn of the crucial role of HMS Jackdaw during the Cold War, and see our new exhibition "Volunteering in Crail".
Cupar County Buildings
7 September 2025
Cupar County Buildings is a major example of civic architecture combining the historical functions of council chamber and courthouse. The principal 9-bay block of 1810-1817 is an early example of the neo-classical work of James Gillespie Graham. This style is broadly mirrored in the design of the 1924-5 addition to the east (built to a 1907 design).
Cupar Museum & Heritage Centre
New
6 September 2025
7 September 2025
Cupar Museum and Heritage Centre has occupied the former Station Cottage at Cupar Railway Station since 2012. Cupar Heritage, a voluntary organisation, transformed the space into a small museum and work area for the benefit of the local community who wished for a museum for many years.
Dreel Halls & St Nicholas Tower
7 September 2025
Take a tour of the 16th century Category A listed St Nicholas tower and, weather permitting, step out onto the parapet for stunning views over Anstruther and out to the Isle of May.
Elie Parish Church
6 September 2025
Elie Parish Church is a B Listed Building in the centre of Elie. An earlier church, endowed by William Scott of Ardross, built here during the post Reformation period, opened for worship on 17th April 1639.
Fife Folk Museum, Ceres
7 September 2025
Explore the story of Fife’s domestic and rural past at our free, family-friendly museum. Come along to see our unique collection and join one of our tours, after which you can enjoy refreshments in our coffee shop.
Isle of May Lighthouses
6 September 2025
7 September 2025
Book the May Island ferry from Anstruther to tour buildings normally under lock and key! including Scotland oldest lighthouse, built in 1636 and the main Stevenson lighthouse with views from the very top. Also open will be the Low lighthouse and the engine rooms.
Kingsbarns Parish Church
7 September 2025
You will be given a warm welcome to this old village church, a place of worship since 1631. Come to discover its history, and enjoy the music of our fine Forster and Andrews organ and Bechstein grand piano.
Largo Kirk
7 September 2025
A church has been on the current site since the early 9thC and a Pictish cross stands in the kirkyard. The current building dates from the 1620s and had major additions in the 19thC including striking stained glass windows, and restoration of the exterior stonework was undertaken in 2016 - a living church with a long heritage.
Monimail Tower Project
new
7 September 2025
Visit this 13th century Tower, once home to the Archbishops of St Andrews, to enjoy the view from the roof and then explore its walled garden, orchard and woodland. These are self-guided activities but charity members will be in the venue to answer questions.
Murray Library Hostel, Anstruther
New
7 September 2025
Built in 1908 following a bequest from Anstruther-born David Murray, the Murray Library provided a library and reading rooms for over 100 years.
Following a £1 million renovation completed in 2016, the building was repurposed into a hostel retaining many of the features of this early 20th century gem while providing affordable accommodation to visitors in the East Neuk.
Our Lady Star of the Sea, Tayport
7 September 2025
Designed by Reginald Fairlie in 1938-9 to a Scottish Gothic style, the church has its entrance porch on the south, beneath an octagonal spired tower, above which is a stone sculpture of Our Lady by Hew Lorimer.
Pittenweem Parish Church
6 September 2025
7 September 2025
A religious site since 1589, Pittenweem Parish Church sits at the heart of the Royal Burgh of Pittenweem and continues to provide a place of worship & contemplation to both residents and visitors.
Pittenweem Telephone Exchange
7 September 2025
This diminutive building, tucked at the end of Session Lane, once housed Pittenweem’s Unit Automatic Exchange (UAX) 13 which the General Post Office opened in the early 1950s.
St Andrews Burgh Chambers
New
6 September 2025
The Burgh Chambers in St Andrews is Fife Council owned and Fife Council run.
This facility can be booked by the public and by community groups for various activities. This facility has been recently refurbished and is a fantastic venue for small weddings.
St Andrews Heritage Museum & Garden
New
20 September 2025
Re-opening after 18 months of restoration and major redevelopment, St Andrews Heritage Museum & Garden is located within a 17th century former fisher home in the historic east end of St Andrews.
St Athernase Church, Leuchars
6 September 2025
7 September 2025
St Athernase Church is one of the finest Romanesque buildings in Scotland. Set on a hill in the centre of the village it has been a focal point for the community for over 800 years.
St James the Great, Cupar
New
6 September 2025
7 September 2025
On Sunday morning 22 December 1867, St James the Great, Episcopal church was formally opened by Bishop Wordsworth. The panelling and choir screen were the gift of the Gilroy family, as a memorial to two sons and a son-in-law lost during the 1914-1918 war.
St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church
new
6 September 2025
7 September 2025
Explore this 19th century Episcopal church built within the precinct of the ancient Priory of Pittenweem and take a tour with our self-guide leaflet to walk around the surviving monastic buildings.
St Margaret's Episcopal Church, Tayport
7 September 2025
St Margaret’s was built in 1896 and is a very fine and unusual late Victorian building of buttressed facing brick designed by the eminent Dundonian architect T. Martin Cappon, who also designed the Gothic Leng chapel at Vicarsford, based on the Sainte Chapelle in Paris.
St Mary's Episcopal Church, Newport
New
7 September 2025
The church is a Grade B Listed Building and was built in 1886-87 by the architect Thomas Martin Cappon, of Dundee. It has a fine organ, built by John Robertson Miller of Dundee, in 1903/04.
St Mary's, Ladybank
6 September 2025
7 September 2025
Few people know that St Mary’s of Ladybank near Cupar in North East Fife is the last remaining ‘cottage’ Scottish Episcopal church.
St Monans Auld Kirk
7 September 2025
A chance to see inside the Auld Kirk and to give people an updated idea of what we would like to achieve if the Community are successful in buying it from the Church of Scotland.
The Byre Theatre
6 September 2025
Visit The Byre for tours of the theatre, talks and displays about our history and productions and meet the team who run this outstanding theatre which hosts around 800 events each year.
Wilkie Memorial Hall
new
7 September 2025
The Wilkie Memorial Hall was built in 1897 to celebrate the renowned local artist Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1841, who lived in the village in the early 19th century, and contains a display about his work and his paintings.
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