Dysart Parish Church, West Port, Dysart

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 08/05/1975 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Kirkcaldy NGR NT 30158 93121 Coordinates 330158, 693121 — Campbell Douglas & Sellars, 1874. Cruciform-plan, Romanesque church on ground falling steeply to S, with 3-bay aisless nave, square section porch to E, apsidal transepts and chancel, crossing tower and squat broach spire, round stair tower to SE. Squared and snecked dressed rubble with bull-faced dressings. 2-stage, saw-tooth coped battered buttresses to tower; moulded string courses to porch and tower. Round-headed windows with stepped architraves; clasping buttresses; nookshafts with cushion and moulded capitals; chamfered reveals and stone mullions. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced gabled porch to centre with steps up to deeply moulded doorcase with flanking paired cushion-capitalled nookshafts, deeply moulded pediment with tympanum dated '1874' and round-headed niche with flanking nookshafts and roundels; square-headed 2-leaf boarded timber door with moulded arrises and roundels over lintel: window to each return and 3-stage coped and battered buttress to left. Bay immediately to left with advanced, conical-roofed stair tower and 2 narrow windows. Recessed face of nave behind with 3-light arcaded window at 2nd stage and Celtic-cross finial to gablehead. TOWER: squat tower rising above apsidal transepts. Clasping buttresses to outer angles, 2-light arcaded windows high up to N, S and W, and narrow square-headed lights flanking ridge of nave to E; continuous string course and small parapet giving way to broach spire with tall, finialled, timber-louvered fleche to each face and decorative ball-and-spike finial. N ELEVATION: 2 stage nave with 3 windows to ground and 2 windows to right of centre above; conical-roofed, rounded apse

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.