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Latitude: 56.1327 / 56°7'57"N
Longitude: -3.3789 / 3°22'43"W
OS Eastings: 314397
OS Northings: 694182
OS Grid: NT143941
Mapcode National: GBR 21.KNVH
Mapcode Global: WH6RR.239Z
Plus Code: 9C8R4JMC+3F
Entry Name: Parish Church, Oakfield Street, Kelty
Listing Name: Oakfield Street, Kelty Kirk with Hall and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 27 November 1996
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390495
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43859
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390495
Location: Beath
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: Cowdenbeath
Parish: Beath
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Church building Architectural structure Church hall
John Houston, 1894-6. Simple gothic church with interest at W end. Rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings, squared stone to W end and stair tower. Pointed arch lancet windows.
ENTRANCE ELEVATION: broad pointed arch doorway at centre with hoodmould, filled with pair of doorways and with ashlar gablehead; battered buttresses flanking with sawtooth coping; small narrow lancets flanking; large circular, hoodmoulded window above with cusped, cruciform, metal tracery. Birdcage bellcote at apex with slated apron, timber formed opening part-railed, and tall slated pinnacle
above on overhanging, bracketed eaves.
N (STATION ROAD) ELEVATION: 6-bay. Gabled transept advanced to outer left with 3 stepped lights. 4 tall lancets to centre bays of nave. Outer bay to right with projecting semicircular stair tower, corbel course at height of neighbouring imposts, with 4 small lights above; half-conical roof with finial.Transept and porch projecting to rear.
Coloured glass in square leaded panes; perspex(?) protective sheets applied externally. Purple slates. Coped skews and red ridge tiles. Leaded aprons remaining from ridge ventilators.
INTERIOR: not seen (1996).
CHURCH HALL: materially and in design, en suite with church. Gabled rectangular-plan hall. Pointed arch door to centre of gable to street with fanlight,flanking pointed arch lights. Gablehead oculus. Y-tracery to lights and fanlight, latter with perspex(?) protective sheets. Coped skews and slate roof.
BOUNDARY WALL: dwarf boundary wall with saddleback coping, stepped at intervals, and with railings in front of hall.
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