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Latitude: 56.0583 / 56°3'29"N
Longitude: -3.2329 / 3°13'58"W
OS Eastings: 323318
OS Northings: 685731
OS Grid: NT233857
Mapcode National: GBR 26.QCND
Mapcode Global: WH6S0.9ZRJ
Plus Code: 9C8R3Q58+8R
Entry Name: Free Church, East Leven Street, Burntisland
Listing Name: East Leven Street, Free Church Tower and Walls
Listing Date: 3 August 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 358411
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22779
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200358411
Location: Burntisland
County: Fife
Town: Burntisland
Electoral Ward: Burntisland, Kinghorn and Western Kirkcaldy
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Church building
1843, site re-developed 1988. Entrance and belfry in Italianate style with remaining walls of Free Church, destroyed by fire 1986, adapted for public sitting area. Ashlar with quoin strips, band courses and stone mullions.
BELFRY: 3-stage tower with blind Venetian window at ground below bracketed coping; 2nd stage with blind oculus to each face; 3rd stage, round-headed opening to bellcote with cast-iron grille to each face, corniced pyramidal cap with spike finial.
FORMER ENTRANCE: now pedestrian gateway. Blockish, square-headed, deeply chamfered opening, cast-iron lamp bracket to street.
WALLS: low coped ashlar boundary walls to street and coped random rubble walls with steps down to site.
Known as the Coupar Kirk after Rev David Coupar who led his congregation out of the Parish Church. Original building erected as a warehouse circa 1830 and subsequently converted to a Church with schoolroom below in 1843 when the belfry was added at the S. The site was donated by George Young of Leith, with building and conversion costs met by John and Robert Young; the furnishing of vestry, pulpit and gallery front were the gift of Misses Helen and Elizabeth Young. Situated immediately opposite the entrance to the Parish Kirk, this was an important site for the breakaway congregation of the 1843 disruption.
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