St Columba's Church, Inverkeithing Road, Aberdour

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 24/03/2004 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Parish Aberdour (Fife) NGR NT 18633 85151 Coordinates 318633, 685151 — 1830s. Squat cruciform-plan gothic chapel, with bellcote. Snecked, coursed, tooled stone. Long and short droved ashlar to arises and window margins. Base course, eaves course. Pointed hoodmoulds to openings with stops. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation. Central doorpiece; flanking nook shafts with bell capitals, roll moulded pointed arch, pointed hoodmould with carved green-man stops. Central, tripartite, pointed arch lancet window above door, central lancet taller. Central apex niche with moulded corbel set between 2 moulded corbels supporting trefoil head to base of bellcote. Bellcote with open pointed arch; hoodmould with stops, chamfered arises, flanking side buttresses, 4 gablets to roof, stylised, decorated cross to centre of roof. N ELEVATION: advanced gabled transept to off-centre left; plate traceried double lancet with central quatrefoil above, pointed hoodmould with stops. Central apex niche with moulded corbel. 2 chamfered, pointed arch lancet windows setback to right. Plain short wall of squat chancel setback to left. E ELEVATION: advanced chancel; tripartite pointed arch lancet at head height to centre, central lancet taller. S ELEVATION: similar to N Elevation but with transept advanced to off-centre right. Timber 2-leaf door with decorative pointed arch raised beading to each leaf and triangular motif. Diamond-paned leaded lights. Pitched slate roof, capped gablet skewputs to each gable. Raised ashlar saw- toothed skews to each gable. INTERIOR: vestibule; 2 timber arched panelled doors to E leading to main body of church. Stone carved font set between doors; trefoiled niches to pier, quatrefoils

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.