St Mary's Roman Catholic Church and Church Hall, High Street, Leslie

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/12/1994 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Leslie NGR NO 25006 01787 Coordinates 325006, 701787 — R Thornton Shiells, 1876-9. Simple Gothic church, originally Free Church, with fine tower masking SW corner at ground; 5-bay nave with dividing buttresses, tranpsetal stairtower to E, square section porch to W linking church hall. Squared and snecked whinstone blocks with ashlar dressings and polished ashlar spire, 2-stage saw-tooth coped battered buttresses; chamfered plinth, saw-tooth coped batter at 2nd stage. Plate traceried S window, hoodmoulds with scroll or knot label stops, chamfered reveals and stone mullions. Boarded doors with scrollwork wrought-iron hinges. S ELEVATION: 2-stage gable end with single pointed lights flanking centre door in heavily moulded door frame with paired colonnettes under abacus caps; hoodmould with scroll labels beneath fleur-de-lys finialled gablet with knot label stops, tympanum with sculpted tree decoration and inscribed ribbon; large triple lancet plate-traceried window in upper stage of gable with colonnettes, centre lancet blinded; entrance approached by straight flight of 7 steps with low saddleback walls: narrow clasping buttress to right breaking eaves as delicate spirelet with ironwork finial, reflecting main spire (see below). Return of gabled single stage stairtower to right with bipartite, pointed window; square section link-porch with trefoil arched doorcase to outer left (beyond tower) adjoining gable end of church hall with dominant tripartite window with paired centre light and single foil, slender polygonal timber louvred lantern with attenuated bellcast roof visible above E pitch. TOWER: 4-stage tower with clasping buttresses and broach spire. Pointed window at 1st stage over cham

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.