Kennoway Old Parish Church, Cupar Road, Kennoway

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 27/06/1973 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Parish Kennoway NGR NO 35058 02631 Coordinates 335058, 702631 — Thomas Hamilton, 1850; Wallace Hall 1900. Romanesque Revival church with narrow tower and broach spire, 5-bay nave and flat-roofed side aisles. Snecked whinstone rubble with contrasting dressed ashlar quoins (some replaced). Coped, squared rubble plinth, dividing course and mutuled cornice. Single and 2-stage sawtooth-coped buttresses. Round-headed openings with deeply chamfered reveals; hoodmoulds and label stops. SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: gabled centre bay with steps up to concave-moulded, doorcase with hoodmould and 2-leaf boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges, hoodmoulded 2-light Venetian-traceried window at 2nd stage, and small stone Celtic cross at gablehead. Tower (see below) immediately to left of centre, and narrow blank bay beyond with single stage buttress to outer left; 2-stage buttress to right of centre with blank bay and single stage buttress beyond. SW TOWER: slightly advanced 4-stage tower with narrow light to 1st stage, similar window above, and black clock face with Roman numerals high up to SW and NW elevations of 3rd stage; belfry to 4th stage with louvered bipartite openings to SW and NE, and single openings to NW and SE. Cornice above giving way to spire with moulded finial and cast-iron weathervane. SE (CUPAR ROAD) ELEVATION: nave with bays of 1st stage divided by single stage buttresses. Steps up to deep-set timber door to right of centre, 2 small windows to left and further window to outer right, deep-set glazed oculus to outer left. 2nd stage with 3 windows grouped toward centre. NW ELEVATION: mirrors SE elevation. NE (WALLACE HALL) ELEVATION: gabled centre bay with traceried window to 2nd

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.