Cults Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 01/03/1984 Supplementary Information Updated 05/12/2019 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Parish Cults NGR NO 34692 09891 Coordinates 334692, 709891 — Built 1793 but may incorporate fabric from an earlier church on the same site. Simple rectangular-plan church with three-stage, square tower centrally placed against west gable. Rubble-built (droved and squared on south wall) with ashlar margins. Tower has forestair leading to door at gallery level, lit by a single oculus and topped by decorative birdcage bellcote (probably re-used ball-finialed). South elevation: two large and altered round-headed windows (one with 1957 leaded glass panel) to inner bays. Doors and gallery windows to outer bays. North elevation has a single central window and a window at each level in outer bays. Doors are studded, with decorative hinges. Straight skews and slate roof. Interior: partly altered 1835, 18th century panelled, octagonal pulpit with pilastered and pedimented rear screen. Panelled timber box pews. Doors have decorative iron latches. Gallery on three walls supported on wooden columns, panelled front, with clock (presented 1843). Pulpit flanked by wall-mounted marble monuments. That to the left is of Sir David Wilkie RA by Samuel Joseph in 1844. That to the right is of Rev David Wilkie (father of above) and his wife Isabella Lister, by Sir Francis Chantrey RA in 1833. Rubble-built cemetery walls enclose some interesting 17th, 18th, and 19th century tombstones. Square gatepiers and an early 19th century, rubble-built session house at the west entrance to the churchyard. The session house has a door below a lamp bracket in the south gable, a single window in the west wall with spun glass panels. Single chimneystack and pantile roof. — Part of B Group

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.