Methodist Church, St Clair Street, Kirkcaldy

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 26/03/1998 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Kirkcaldy NGR NT 29129 93055 Coordinates 329129, 693055 — 1888. Low, 5-bay, aisless church with small porch and good interior. Bull-faced, squared and snecked rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings; dry-dash. Base course. Pointed-arch door with hoodmould and label-stops, and shouldered window openings; battered cope to buttresses. Chamfered reveals. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: small porch with 2-leaf boarded timber door to outer right, 3 bipartite windows to left and further single window to outer left, buttresses between windows. Small triangular air vent close to roof ridge at outer left. S ELEVATION: 3-bay, canted elevation with rooflight over centre bay. N ELEVATION: plain gabled bay with sign to left and modern cross at gablehead. W ELEVATION: 2 windows with metal shutters to left, later hall (not included in this listing) adjoined to right and small air vent as above to outer right. Multi-pane glazing with coloured margins. Grey slates in decorative vertical bands; terracotta ridge tiles and finials. INTERIOR: pointed-arch openings, fixed timber pews with umbrella racks, hammerbeam roof on moulded corbels and decorative cast-iron roof ventilator. Canted chancel area with panelled dado and pointed-arch sounding board, rooflight above. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Door to SW blocked, and further door opened when hall erected.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.