Buckhaven Theatre

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 24/11/1972 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Buckhaven And Methil NGR NT 35797 98118 Coordinates 335797, 698118 — William Burn, 1825; central division of gable front refaced by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1854; re-erected here 1872; extended to sides 1885; converted to theatre 1987 with further extension. Small cruciform-plan aisless church with side aisles and added SE transept, Perpendicular details. Polished and dressed ashlar; chamfered base course and string courses. Pointed-arch openings and traceried windows with hoodmoulds and label-stops; crocketted pinnacles; 3-stage saw-tooth coped battered angle buttresses; chamfered reveals and stone mullions. 2-leaf boarded timber doors. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. 2-stage centre gable with full-height moulded panel with 3 steps up to moulded doorcase and flanking nookshafts, pilaster buttresses with trefoil-headed blind panel and 2-light blind-traceried windows in moulded frames with deeply revealed cills over moulded string course. Band of trefoil-headed blind arcading over door giving way to 5-light traceried window below elaborate ogee-shaped hoodmould with human-head label-stops. Flanking angle buttresses with gablet-coped, 2-light blind-traceried detail to 2nd stage, and cross-finialled gablet coping to 3rd stage giving way to decoratively-coped diamond-aligned rectangular pinnacles with heavy block caps. Pierced and raked parapet with raised centre triple pinnacle at apex. Slightly set-back side aisles (under continued roof slopes) each with blocked hoodmoulded window. N ELEVATION: 2 bays to left of centre each with simple Y-traceried 2-light window and dormer head raised above eaves line, buttress to outer left and taller extension projecting to outer right. S ELEVATIO

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.