St Adrian's Church And Churchyard, Main Street, West Wemyss

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 17/03/1999 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Parish Wemyss NGR NT 32786 94885 Coordinates 332786, 694885 — Designed Alexander Tod, 1890; erected A Stewart Tod; altered Charles R Tod, 1969; mural William McLaren, 1969. 18th century graveyard. Cruciform-plan, plain gothic-detailed, crowstepped church with 3-bay aisless nave with dividing buttresses, and tri-lobe tracery rose window. Red sandstone rubble with dressed ashlar quoins and rock-faced margins. Pointed-arch and round openings. 3-stage coped buttresses; stone mullions. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: broad crowstepped gable with small crowstepped outer porches, each with small window to SW and door to inner returns, linked by gothic loggia; set-back 2-leaf panelled timber door to centre. Large tri-lobed rose window (see Notes) above in cross-finialled gable. SE ELEVATION: nave with 3 tripartite windows to left of centre; gabled transept to right with lancet and blind oculus in gablehead, and bipartite window on return to left; smaller crowstepped bay projecting to outer right with boarded timber door to left and square-headed window to right. NW ELEVATION: nave and transept as above (latter with blocked lancet), crowstepped bay to outer left (detail obscured by wall). NE ELEVATION: large raised centre tripartite window to centre of cross-finialled gable with single lancets to outer bays (all openings blocked). Multi-pane diamond pattern leaded glazing with coloured margins. Large grey slates (Countess slates) except SE transept and outer right bay with modern grey slate. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts; and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers. INTERIOR: oak chairs in timber panelled nave punctuated by engaged polygonal marble columns with cushion capitals suppo

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.