St Agatha's Roman Catholic Church, Methil Brae, Methilhaven Road, Buckhaven

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 17/03/1999 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Buckhaven And Methil NGR NT 36609 99920 Coordinates 336609, 699920 — Reginald Fairlie, 1924. Altar, 1938. Romanesque style, rectangular-plan aisless church with 8-bay nave, side chapels and SE link to presbytery; good stained glass. Red brick and concrete blockwork. Chamfered string/cill course and mutuled eaves course. Round and segmental-headed openings; voussoirs. NE (METHIL BRAE) ELEVATION: cross-finialled gable with full-width tiled loggia (square-plan columns and square-headed arcade), full-height bipartite window to centre with 2-leaf boarded timber doors in flanking bays. 3 small round-headed windows at 2nd stage. SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: porch to outer right bay with moulded round-headed doorcase and deep-set 2-leaf boarded timber door, decorative wrought-iron hinges, decoratively-astragalled semicircular fanlight and small window on return to right. 4 centre bays with stone cross (see Notes) memorial to centre at ground and segmental-headed tripartite window to each bay at 2nd stage. Lower, projecting, piended bay to outer left with 4 small round-headed windows (grouped 3-1) and segmental-headed tripartite window on return to right; presbytery link, door and small window to projecting face and 3 small round-headed windows on return to left. Penultimate bay to left with segmental-headed window to side chapel under sloping roof, and narrow round-headed tripartite window to outer left. NW ELEVATION: 3 segmental-headed windows under projecting sloping roof to right of centre, narrow round-headed tripartite to outer right, 4 segmental-headed windows to left with pitch-roofed side chapel beyond. SW ELEVATION: blank gabled elevation with stone-cross finial. Some small-pane clear glazi

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.