Baptist Church, Whytescauseway, Kirkcaldy

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 27/02/1997 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Kirkcaldy NGR NT 27893 91370 Coordinates 327893, 691370 — 1854. Box church with Tudor detail and spirelet fleche, 3-bay aisless nave with canted side chapels to E. Ashlar with coursed rubble and dressed quoins to sides and rear. Base course, moulded string course and cornice to W; eaves course. Pointed-arch openings, hoodmoulds, stone mullions and chamfered reveals. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical gable elevation. Deeply moulded doorway at centre with hoodmould, trefoil detail in spandrels and decorative cast-iron lamp bracket, hoodmoulded lancets in flanking bays and raised centre 3-light window in gablehead. FLECHE: 3-stage, finialled fleche to centre of roof ridge. Tall, battered plinth with louvered 2nd stage giving way to spire with gablet to each face and decorative cast-iron finial. S ELEVATION: 3 windows to left and polygonal-roofed canted bay to outer right with traceried window to projecting face and smaller windows on returns. Low flat-roofed extension to outer right. N ELEVATION: mirrors S elevation. Multi-pane leaded glazing with coloured margins. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stack, ashlar-coped skews. INTERIOR: pointed-arch openings; panelled ceiling with plain cornicing, decorative bosses and air vents; decorative plasterwork window margins and boarded dado panelling. Vestibule with stairs to right and left, decorative cast-iron, and timber war memorial. Timber bench pews, 2 cast-iron columns with floreate capitals supporting gallery with carved panels to front and clock at centre, raked pews and decorative cast-iron window-guards. Raised chancel area with broad pulpit and sounding board carved with blind arcading, traceried stained glass memorial window above, flanking

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.