Pathhead Parish Church, Church Street, Kirkcaldy

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 08/05/1975 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Kirkcaldy NGR NT 29130 92770 Coordinates 329130, 692770 — Dated 1822, rebuilt 1958 after fire. Rectangular-plan crowstepped Tudor Gothic church; 3-bay aisless nave with 3-stage, square tower to N. Harled with droved quoin strips and dressings. Deep ashlar base course and eaves course. Pointed-arch openings; corbelled bartizans, hoodmoulds and label-stops; chamfered reveals, stone transoms and mullions. Transomed stone Y-tracery. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Crowstepped gable with advanced tower (see below) to centre bay; tall hoodmoulded, transomed and mullioned traceried windows to flanking bays and hoodmoulded, 2-leaf panelled timber doors to outer bays. TOWER: 1st stage of advanced N face with steps up to deeply moulded doorcase with hoodmould, label-stops and 2-leaf panelled timber door below hoodmoulded and dated plaque, hoodmoulded window above; E and W faces each with small pointed-arch niche below small window. String course giving way to 2nd stage with blind oculus to N, E and W; S face abacking gable. Further string course giving way to 3rd stage with hoodmoulded, square-headed, louvered bipartite openings to N, E and W; S elevation with 2 narrow, square-headed windows; corbelled, crenellated parapet above. E (HARRIET STREET) ELEVATION: 3 hoodmoulded, transomed and mullioned, traceried windows, and small polygonal pepperpot bartizan with ogee corbel and trefoil-headed blind niche to each face at outer angles. W ELEVATION: as E elevation. S ELEVATION: lower chancel with raised centre tripartite window projecting at centre, 2 narrow windows high up in gablehead and bartizan as above at apex. Margined, diamond-pattern, multi-pane leaded glazing; S memorial window see below

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.