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Former Free Church, Main Street, Kinglassie

A Category C Listed Building in Kinglassie, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.1746 / 56°10'28"N

Longitude: -3.2407 / 3°14'26"W

OS Eastings: 323067

OS Northings: 698691

OS Grid: NT230986

Mapcode National: GBR 26.GXKV

Mapcode Global: WH6RM.6228

Plus Code: 9C8R5QF5+VP

Entry Name: Former Free Church, Main Street, Kinglassie

Listing Name: Kinglassie, Main Street, Former Free Church with Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 4 October 1996

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390237

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43666

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390237

Location: Kinglassie

County: Fife

Electoral Ward: Glenrothes West and Kinglassie

Parish: Kinglassie

Traditional County: Fife

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

1844, minor late 19th century additions. Rectangular-plan, Free Church with 3-bay, aisless nave and small, L-plan porch. Squared and snecked dark whinstone, remains of harl/dry-dash to sides and rear, contrasting droved quoins and raised margins. Pointed-arch openings, sandstone moulded doorcase with chamfered reveals, 2-stage, saw-tooth coped buttress and voussoirs.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay nave to left with tall traceried windows, small (modern?) ventilators between bays; 3 small, timber-louvred, terracotta-finialled dormer ventilators adjoining roof ridge. Lower porch adjoining at outer right, 2-leaf boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges in gabled doorcase with blind niche in gablehead, floreate finial and buttress to right, small window with moulded lintel on return to right and further window on recessed face to outer right (both windows blocked).

E ELEVATION: porch with gablehead stack projecting at ground, blocked oculus above and slender, stone saw-tooth coped bellcote, with bell, at gablehead.

W ELEVATION: tall Y-traceried window at centre with blocked oculus above and ashlar finialled gablehead.

N ELEVATION: 2 tall, blinded windows with small ventilators to outer right and left.

Leaded, coloured, small-pane glazing in timber Y-traceried windows. Graded grey slates, corrugated tin to porch roof. Stepped, ashlar-coped skews, moulded skewputts and coped ashlar stack; decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials; decorative cast-iron hoppers to S.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low saddleback-coped and rubble-coped whinstone boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such.

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