Methil Parish Church, Wellesley Road, Methil

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 24/11/1972 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Buckhaven And Methil NGR NT 36979 99500 Coordinates 336979, 699500 — Reginald Fairlie, dated 1925; minor alteration to cloister circa 1950. Cruciform-plan, aisless Romanesque church with low pyramidal-roofed NW tower and cloistral link to transept. Snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Droved ashlar base course with battered cope to E; eaves course. Round-headed openings. Buttresses; voussoirs; stone mullions. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: broad gabled elevation with tripartite arcade-effect entrance, 2-leaf outer doors with mosaic-detail tympanum flank small window to centre, each arch with engaged colonnettes; tripartite window above and arrowslit in gablehead. NW (WELLESLEY ROAD) ELEVATION: small 5-light cloister to centre with adjacent boarded timber door to right, all under lean-to roof below 2 widely spread tripartite windows. Bell tower (see below) in penultimate bay to right and window to ground below tripartite window in bay to outer right. Transeptal-bay to left of centre with 3 windows, flanking full-height buttresses and arrowslit in gablehead, tripartite window to each return and 2 further tripartite windows in recessed bays to outer left (all tripartites at clerestorey level). BELL TOWER: 2-stage, square-plan tower with windows to ground and on return to left at 1st stage, small engaged conical-roofed tower with arrowslits close to eaves on return to right with lower link in re-entrant angle and small window above. Slightly set-back 2nd stage with 3 square-headed arrowslits to each elevation giving way to finialled pyramid roof. SE ELEVATION: transeptal bay to right of centre with 3 windows, flanking full-height buttresses and arrowslit in gablehead; door in small porch in re-en

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.