St Fillan's Church, 20 King Street, Newport-on-tay

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 27/11/2013 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Newport-On-Tay NGR NO 42264 28084 Coordinates 342264, 728084 — 1886. Single storey, L-plan, timber and corrugated iron church with triangular-headed windows, located on a sloping site between the King Street and Queen Street in a residential area of Newport-on-Tay. Tall pyramidal ventilator cap to roof ridge with pierced timber base and cross-finial. Slightly lower transept outshot to north forming L-plan. Gabled porch outshot with trefoil decoration to west with window to west and timber door to north. Bipartite window to east gable. Timber eaves to gables with square-cut decoration. Brick base. Timber-framed, 4-pane glazing to windows. Cast iron rainwater goods. The interior was seen in 2013 and consists of timber panelled walls, timber pews (from another church), ambry recess and plinth with decorative timber surround. Cross-braced timber ceiling frame, resting on timber corbels. Trefoil headed glazed panels to doors. — Place of worship in use as such. St Fillan's in Newport-on-Tay was built in 1886 and its L-plan footprint appears as it does now on the 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1893. It is a rare surviving example of a largely unaltered chapel built of corrugated iron and timber. It is one of the few corrugated iron churches in the country that remains in use for its intended purpose. The survival of original architectural details such as the pyramidal-capped ventilator in the style of a bellcote, the triangular-headed timber windows and interior detailing are rare for this temporary building type, commonly known as a 'tin tabernacle'. Tin tabernacles were constructed from standardised corrugated iron sheets on a wooden frame. As the technology required to standardise and pr

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.