Scoonie Parish Church, Durie Street, Leven

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 24/11/1985 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Leven NGR NO 38332 00979 Coordinates 338332, 700979 — Dr Peter Macgregor Chalmers, 1905. Plain aisled Romanesque church. Incorporating SW tower and spire of 1775 by William Robertson of Sawmill, lower stages recased, octagonal belfry stage and spire remain unaltered; 1883 organ chamber to S. Continuous 7-bay nave and chancel; flanking gabled aisles, that to N 2-stage, that to S with transeptal organ chamber; single storey NE vestry. Stugged, squared and snecked rubble with droved ashlar quoins. String course incorporating hoodmoulds to W, eaves course. Tall single stage, sawtooth -coped buttresses to W; paired, roll-moulded, round-headed doorcases; roll-moulded (except to N) round-headed and circular windows; tracery. Voussoirs, raked cills, stone mullions. Boarded timber doors throughout. W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced centre gable to with buttress, flanking paired doorcases, 2-leaf doors with semicircular fanlights and flanking outer buttresses. Paired tall windows above with cushion-capitalled nookshafts and concave-moulded heads, similarly moulded surround to circular window in cross-finialled gablehead above. Slightly recessed transeptal stair tower to left of centre with square-headed door and adjacent small light (blocked) to left, further small light above. Recessed gable in bay to right with tower (see below) in re-entrant angle to left and tall single light immediately to right. SW TOWER: 2-stage tower with octagonal spire. Tall 1st stage with stone forestair to S leading to round-headed, low piended porch in re-entrant angle to W. Octagonal 2nd stage with clock face dipping into 1st stage at S and W, arrowslit to cardinal faces above, and cornice giving way to spire with con

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.