Viewfield Baptist Church and Hall, East Port, Dunfermline

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 10/03/2000 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Dunfermline NGR NT 09457 87481 Coordinates 309457, 687481 — Peter L Henderson, 1882-84; extension to W 1949. Overall rectangular-plan structure orientated N/S; comprising square-plan church with galleried nave built over church hall at basement level; lower-height chancel enclosed within slightly lower section to S incorporating staircase and ancilliary offices. Gothic Revival design with Geometric tracery to principal windows of church and shallow gabled porch to N with heavily carved tympanum. Coursed rockfaced sandstone with droved sandstone ashlar dressings and polished ashlar details. Base course to church to ground floor. Cill course to principal windows to principal bay to principal (N) elevation; band course forms hood-mould over principal windows to church to E and W elevations and continues across low parapets; band course towards apex of each gable. Long and short surrounds to most openings. Coped gables. N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: shallow gabled porch to centre; steps up to pair of entrances set back within moulded Gothic archway with 3 flanking pairs of nook-shafts; carved stops to outer moulding (hood-mould). Ashlar surrounds to entrances; richly carved foliage in between and to tympanum above; multi-foil panel at head with bust of cherub carved at centre; diagonally boarded 2-leaf timber doors with elaborate strap hinges. Trefoil-headed niche with single flanking nook-shafts at apex of porch. Porch extends as lean-to to either side below gable; lancet window to outer return on either side. Principal gabled bay set back slighly; lancet window with roll-moulded surround to either side of porch; basement window below that to right; double-arched blind arcade flanking porch gabl

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.