Kirkmay House

Kirkmay House is a Classic Georgian Mansion House.

It is double bow fronted with flyover stairs and a central attic.

It was built in 1817 for the Inglis family.

Robert Inglis, a native son of Crail, purchased the Javanese coffee monopoly and retired a rich man.

Hence the original name of Java House.

Opposite at 18 Marketgate South - Forelands - was the house of the Kingo family of weavers. A Thomas Kingo was deacon of the guild of weavers in Crail in 1590 - he sailed to Denmark to weave tapestries for the Kronberg Palace and took his son Hans with him. Hans married and had a son also called Thomas who was born at Slagerup in 1634. Thomas the younger eventually became Bishop Kingo of Fyen, a celebrated Danish hymn writer. Another Thomas Kingo is celebrated by a marriage lintel at Forelands with the date 1759 for his marriage to Barbara Ness.

Continue along the north side of Marketgate towards the church.