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Latitude: 56.2043 / 56°12'15"N
Longitude: -2.7655 / 2°45'55"W
OS Eastings: 352606
OS Northings: 701567
OS Grid: NO526015
Mapcode National: GBR 2S.F2N7
Mapcode Global: WH7SS.HB91
Plus Code: 9C8V663M+PQ
Entry Name: St Monance Harbour
Listing Name: St Monance Harbour
Listing Date: 18 August 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 387053
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40965
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200387053
Location: St Monance
County: Fife
Town: St Monance
Electoral Ward: East Neuk and Landward
Tagged with: Harbour
Natural tidal harbour with three piers and boat-builders slipways. Central Pier: 300 feet long, cased in cement, incorporating pre-1828 fabric. East Pier: David and Thomas Stevenson, 1865, L-plan. Shuttered mass-concrete breakwater additions, 1879 to S and SW. West Pier: Charles Stevenson, reconstructed 1902.
The harbour at St Monans is central to the historical focus and identity of the village. Its phased construction tells us much about the development and importance of the fishing industry and herring fleet boat-building community here in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The harbour breakwaters demonstrate an early use of unreinforced mass concrete and Portland cement construction. These materials were used in a number of structures, including lighthouses, associated with the fishing industry in Fife from the end of the 19th century onwards.
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