![]() This photo was taken in March 2019 by Barnaby Miln.Ī Brief History of the Order of St Lazarus Conservation works stabilised the ruin in 2016. Excavations in 2015 found medieval pottery imported from France, fine window glass, and a carved stone shot-hole. In its long history it has also been known as the Castle of Inchgall. ![]() The tower, built in the late 14th century, was surrounded by a curtain wall with four round artillery towers. Lochore Castle was the fortress home of the Lochore family, established by Robert the Burgundian in c.1128. Owned for a while by Colonel Gayre it was later sold to Fife County Council at the creation of the Country Park on what had previous been coal mining land. The ruins of Lochore Castle – located at the gateway to Lochore Meadows Country Park, at Crosshill KY5 8BA, situated between Lochgelly and Benarty in Fife. It became its collegiate church, the seat of the Hereditary Commandery of Lochore, named after a ruined castle owned by Colonel Gayre. It was the first church to have been acquired by the Order of St Lazarus since the Reformation. In 1971 Colonel Gayre bought St Vincent’s Church from its Vestry. Purchase of St Vincent’s Church, Edinburgh In 1967 Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg established a Commandery of the Order of St Lazarus, originally a hospitaller order set up in the Holy Land in the twelfth century. The Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem : The Hereditary Commandery of Lochore
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