St Paul's Church, Glenrothes

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 15/09/1987 Supplementary Information Updated 28/09/2009 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Parish Markinch NGR NO 28093 00454 Coordinates 328093, 700454 — Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, 1956-8. Flat-roofed lectern-shaped church with tall glazed W wall, monopitch-roofed tower to E and flat-roofed extension to S; presbytery adjoining to SW. Simplified, expressionist in style. White painted brick. W elevation: advanced, part-coloured, glass and timber wall of irregular vertically and horizontally disposed panes; flat-roof behind (recently altered to sloping) leading to glazed wall of chancel with irregular panes disposed vertically; part-glazed door in projecting porch to right forming link with presbytery (see below), and extension adjoining to outer right. E elevation: originally symmetrical. Broad tower-like chancel to centre under rising pitch of slate roof surmounted by cross to left; lower flanking walls; adjoining extension to left with deep-set door to outer left and row of small windows on return to left. N elevation: blank wall of church with wrought-iron sign to right. Cast-iron downpipes and decorative rainwater hoppers. Interior: top-lit chancel (see Notes) with tabernacle; metal altar cross, 12 feet high, with symbols of the passion, St Joseph, Virgin Mary and pieta (1957), and Madonna for the Lady Altar to SW (1960) both by Benno Schotz. Carved figure of St Paul and Stations of the Cross by Harry Bain. Foundation stone laid by Rev Gordon Joseph Grey on 23rd June 1957. Font now situated to SE; confessional to W. Hall to S with sliding partition walls. Presbytery: single storey, originally irregular U-plan with flat roof, later wing addition to form courtyard plan. N elevation with modern door to left of centre, asymmetrical bipartite

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.