St Andrew's Parish Church, Durie Street, Leven

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 28/09/1999 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Leven NGR NO 38398 01036 Coordinates 338398, 701036 — John Hay, Liverpool, 1861. Bain Hall by David Henry, St Andrews, 1897 (designed 1889). Rectangular-plan gothic church with broach spire. 5-bay nave with aisles under swept roof with clerestorey windows. Stugged squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Raked base course, continuous hoodmoulds forming string courses, and eaves course. 2-stage saw-tooth coped buttress; pointed- and Tudor-arched openings; traceried W window and rose E window; hoodmoulds and label-stops; stone mullions; boarded timber doors with decorative ironwork hinges. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: gabled elevation with tower (see below) to left. Deeply moulded doorcase with floreate capitals and 2-leaf door, flanking small traceried lights and buttress beyond to right. Tall lancet in bay to right. 4-light traceried window with hoodmould and block label-stops to 2nd stage giving way to trefoil in stone finialled gablehead. TOWER: 4-stage tower with broach spire. 1st stage blank to W, door (see below) to N; string course over giving way to 2nd course with tall lancet and hoodmould breaking into 3rd stage at W, small single light to N. 3rd stage to W and N with saw-tooth coping giving way to deep band with 3 traceried roundels (with external secondary glazing?) and flanking buttresses with miniature buttress angle detail. Each elevation of 4th stage with attenuated, louvered double lancet with tiny roundel above breaking eaves into gablet dormer stretching into broach spire with double string course giving way to diminutive gableted opening to alternate faces, and decorative cast-iron Celtic cross finial. N ELEVATION: steps and ramp access to deep-set Tudor-arched do

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.