Episcopal Church, Queen Street, Tayport

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 25/11/1999 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Tayport NGR NO 45738 28446 Coordinates 345738, 728446 — T Martin Cappon, 1896. Small single storey, cruciform-plan, gothic-detailed church with polygonal chancel and 2-bay nave. Red brick with painted stone lintels, cills and base course. 2-stage, sawtooth-coped, brick dividing and angle buttresses; traceried windows, that to E pointed-arch. Timber mullions. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: gabled elevation with large, 4-light pointed-arch window breaking into mock half-timbered gablehead. W ELEVATION: polygonal chancel projecting to centre bay with later out-of-character dry-dash lean to bay to centre face, and small 2-light traceried window to each flanking canted face. Outer bays with 2 light window to left and single light window to right (both traceried). S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: traceried window to each bay of nave to centre and right, transeptal gambrel-roofed porch in bay to left with panelled timber door and plate glass fanlight on return to right, and projecting lower piended bay with small window to each return. N ELEVATION: mirrors S elevation but transeptal bay with 4-light window and 2-light windows to returns (all traceried). Coloured leaded glass to chancel windows, horizontal 3- and 4- pane glazing patterns to traceried window, 4-pane glazing to timber sash and case window at porch. Small Westmoreland grey slates with terracotta ridge tiles and finials. Tall battered stacks; deeply overhanging eaves and exposed moulded rafters. INTERIOR: timbered roof braces on stone corbels; timber pews and dadoes, and small carved reredos. BOUNDARY WALLS: low saddleback-coped rubble boundary walls. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Carefully detailed traceried windows. Unusual use of br

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.