St Margaret's R.C. Church, Holyrood Place, Dunfermline

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/01/1971 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Dunfermline NGR NT 09546 87576 Coordinates 309546, 687576 — R Rowand Anderson, 1889-96; chancel and W sacristy/vestry added 1934-36 by M Watson of Edinburgh, probably under Reginald Fairlie; E sacristy/kitchen added/further extensions to W 1973. Rectangular-plan; orientated N/S; with aisled nave, apsidal N end and large gabled porch to S. 4-bay nave of Transitional design based on Peterborough Cathedral (part of larger uncompleted scheme); 3-bay chancel (plus apse). Slender flanking towers with pyramidal roofs to S gable. Coursed snecked rock-faced red sandstone with droved ashlar towers, buttresses and dressings to nave and porch; yellow sandstone chancel; dressings to apse and those to sacristy and vestry partly or wholly of concrete. Base course (except to altered sacristy and vestry); band course at cill level to aisles and one over arches of clerestory windows to either side of nave; machicolated eaves band to nave and aisles; parapet to nave. Eaves band to chancel; machicolated band course below to apse. Round-arched openings to nave (including aisles) and upper part of apse; splayed reveals to gable and either side of nave/aisles and upper part of chancel. Coped gables. S ELEVATION: large porch occupies most of width of nave; round-arched entrance with 2-leaf boarded timber door with ornate strap hinges and fanlight; oculus to shouldered gable above; shallow buttress stepped out twice to both returns; arrowslit to upper part of butress to left return; band course to right return. Gable end of nave set back; blind 3-light window arcade (Palladian arrangement) with nook shafts; band course at cill level and one above following outline of arches. Ornamented Greek cross (cross fleuret

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.