St Margaret's Queen of Scotland Episcopal Church, Victoria Road, Leven

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 10/09/1979 Supplementary Information Updated 14/06/2022 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Leven NGR NO 38255 01002 Coordinates 338255, 701002 — Matthews and Mackenzie, Aberdeen, 1880; church hall 1902. Aisless gothic church with 3-bay nave, low chancel, transepts, porch and circular tower corbelled to octagonal belfry stage with slated spire. Squared and snecked rock-faced rubble with polished ashlar dressings. Base, partial moulded cill course and eaves course. Pointed- and basket-arched openings Sawtooth-coped battered buttresses; raked cills; hoodmoulds with label-stops; plate tracery. Voussoirs and stone mullions. Boarded timber doors with decorative ironwork hinges. SOUTH (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: nave with 3 plate-traceried windows, low porch projecting in bay to left with deeply chamfered reveals and low flanking buttresses, and tower (see below) in re-entrant angle to left. Transeptal chapel with raised centre 3-light window and flanking low buttresses projecting in penultimate bay to right, and bipartite window to outer right. TOWER: squat 3-stage stair tower with spire. 1st stage with cill course and small window. Slightly reduced 2nd stage with 2 small stair windows and corbelled, polygonal 3rd stage louvered openings giving way to conical-roofed finialled spire. NORTH ELEVATION: 3 plate-traceried windows to nave, transept (vestry) with tripartite window and basket-arched door on return to left projecting in penultimate bay to left, and bipartite window to outer left. EAST ELEVATION: broad gable with flanking buttresses and dominant raised centre 3-light window. WEST ELEVATION: as E elevation but with trefoil opening in gablehead. Leaded diamond pattern glazing and stained glass (see Interior) windows. Grey slates, fishscale

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.