Newburn Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984.
Newburn Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- rusted-bonework-crow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1984
- OS grid reference
- NO 447 033
- Coordinates
- 56.21958, -2.89196
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Session House at Newburn Parish Church is a simple rectangular-plan Gothic church designed by architect Alexander Leslie of Largo and built between 1814 and 1815. It was converted into a dwelling house in 1970 by L A Rolland & Partners of Leven. The church features a two-stage square tower on the east side constructed of whin rubble with yellow ashlar long and short dressings. The upper stage of the tower is made of ashlar and includes pointed and hood-moulded belfry openings on each face, a corbelled and crenellated parapet, and a faceted spire.
The south elevation is symmetrical, showcasing glazed former doors in the outer bays, a low centrally placed piend-roofed projecting vestry, and two blind quatrefoil panels above flanked by two tall windows. All openings are pointed-headed and hood-moulded with intersecting tracery. The roof is piended and covered with slate, featuring a single central stack.
The north elevation loses its symmetry due to the insertion of one door and one window, with pointed windows featuring intersecting tracery in each outer bay, and a group of four symmetrical centre windows at the ground level and former gallery. The roof here is also slated.
To the west, there is a flat-roofed, square-plan detached former session house made of whin rubble with yellow ashlar dressings, featuring a door on the east elevation. The ashlar capping blocks on the session house imitate crenellations. The property is enclosed by a rubble-built wall with square, droved ashlar gatepiers.
Local climate
Newburn Parish Church receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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