West End Congregational Church, High Street, Kirkcaldy

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 27/02/1997 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Kirkcaldy NGR NT 27921 91192 Coordinates 327921, 691192 — 1874. Gothic church with tower, 5-bay aisled nave with angle buttresses. Squared and snecked rubble on stugged ashlar 1st stage, polished ashlar dressings with stugged ashlar quoins. Single and 2-stage sawtooth-coped buttresses; chamfered ashlar base course on rubble bed, moulded stringcourse incorporating hoodmould and architraved cornice. Pointed-arch openings, hoodmoulds, stop-chamfered reveals and stone mullions. S (PRINCIPAL, HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: 2-stage gabled bay to centre with steps up to deeply moulded doorway with modern glazed doors and flanking adjacent lights, stepped 5-light window at 2nd stage with Celtic cross finial; 3-stage buttress of tower (see below) to right and 2-stage buttress to left; slightly recessed bay beyond to left with paired lancet, and further 2-stage buttress to outer left. SE TOWER: 2-stage tower with spire: tall 1st stage engaged to N and W; S elevation with string course below paired lancet with hoodmould at 1st batter of flanking 2-stage buttresses, deep glazed quatrefoil at head of stage between buttresses' 2nd batter; E elevation with deep-set 2-leaf boarded timber door and decorative cast-iron hinges, string course extending from hoodmould and quatrefoil at head of stage as at S. Sawtooth-coped batter giving way to polygonal 2nd stage with gablet-coped, crocket-finialled, louvered lancet to each face and polygonal spire with narrow decorative band and cast-iron finial. N ELEVATION: gabled bay with stepped triple lancet stained glass windows. E (WHYTEHOUSE AVENUE) ELEVATION: 5-bay nave with dividing single stage buttresses and 2 small louvered dormer gablets above. W ELEVATION: as above

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.