St Brycedale Church of Scotland, St Brycedale Avenue, Kirkcaldy

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 28/01/1971 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Kirkcaldy NGR NT 27934 91676 Coordinates 327934, 691676 — James Matthews of Aberdeen, 1878-81; ground floor conversion 1988. Vast rectangular-plan, aisled gothic church with geometric tracery; tall 4-stage tower and spire masking NE corner; rose window and flanking pyramidal-roofed towers to S; 6-bay nave with dividing buttresses. SE tower adjoining 5-bay gabled vestry and church hall to S. Bull-faced masonry (Fordell stone) with polished ashlar dressings and spire; 2-stage saw-tooth coped battered buttresses to nave, 4-stage to NE tower, 4-stage with pinnacles to N and 3-stage with pinnacles to NW. Ashlar base and cill courses, decorative-mutuled cornice with blocking course; string courses to towers. Moulded doorcases, pointed- and Caernarvon-arched openings; trefoil-headed windows, glazed oculus; hoodmoulds with floreate label-stops to all openings except 1st stage of nave and hall; chamfered reveals and stone mullions. Boarded doors with decorative wrought-iron hinges. N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-stage, cross-finialled gable end with arcaded openings, raised doorcase to centre deeply moulded with paired colonnettes under Corinthian caps, boarded tympanum and broad 2-leaf door; flanking 2-light traceried windows with deeply chamfered reveals, blind oculi flanking doorcase. String course above abutting cill of large 5-light traceried window with glazed quatrefoil in gablehead. Cross-finialled, 4-stage, pinnacled buttress, with polygonal 4th stage, to right and NE tower (see below) to left. 2-stage bay to outer right (N face of pinnacled porch to W elevation) with Caernarvon-arched doorhead in pointed-arch moulded door frame with flanking colonnettes under Corinthian caps, blind quatrefo

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.