Colinsburgh Town Hall

For most of the 19th century, community events in Colinsburgh were held in the local school, but, in the early 1880s, the artist, Lady Caroline Coutts Lindsay, led an initiative to establish a dedicated town hall. The initiative gathered pace when Captain James Scott-Davidson of Cairnie took charge of fundraising and secured a significant contribution from Eudoxie, Countess of Lindsay, who, with her husband, John Trotter Bethune, 10th Earl of Lindsay, lived at Kilconquhar House. The site they chose for the new town hall in Main Street was occupied by the Countess of Lindsay's sewing school. Construction on the new building started in 1894. It was designed by Andrew Dewar and Alexander…