Macainish Parish Church Manse, 82 Main Street, Lochgelly

The Macainsh Parish Church, located on Main Street in Lochgelly, was designed by Mr Downie of Kirkcaldy and built in 1849 by James Robertson, with joinery work by David and John Wilson. It is a single-story, rectangular building. The north-west elevation is constructed from sandstone ashlar, while the remaining elevations are of sandstone rubble. The church features a base course, chamfered reveals, and tall, pointed arched openings with Y tracery and basket tracery.

The north-west (principal) elevation is symmetrical and gabled, with three bays. The central bay projects forward and incorporates a decorative architraved doorpiece, featuring an elaborate roll-moulded Tudor arched doorway. Flanking this doorway are inset quatrefoils, and a boarded timber door is accessed by splayed stone steps. A pointed arched, architraved window springs from the doorpiece and is topped with a hoodmould, with a birdcage bellcote with a pyramidal roof positioned above. Windows are set in the bays to the left and right of the central bay. The south-west and north-east elevations are also symmetrical, each with three bays and a single window in each bay. The south-east elevation has later additions linking the church to a hall.

The church has square-pane leaded windows, including two decorative stained glass windows on the south-east elevation. The roof is covered in grey slate and is fitted with a ridge ventilator. Stone skews feature gableted skewputts.

Inside, the church has an aisleless nave, a panelled gallery facing north-west, pine pews with decorative pew ends, and an elaborate octagonal pulpit on the south-east side. The ceiling is adorned with elaborate plasterwork.

A hall, built in the early 20th century, adjoins the church. It is a single-story, rectangular building constructed from stugged, squared, and snecked sandstone. It features chamfered reveals and a broad, round arched, traceried window with a hoodmould on the gabled north-west elevation. Timber windows and a slate roof with stone skews (featuring blocked skewputts) complete the exterior. The hall’s interior was not inspected in 2001.

The manse at 82 Main Street is a later 19th-century, two-story, three-bay villa constructed from coursed yellow sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. It incorporates a base course, architraved openings, and long and short rusticated quoins. The north-west elevation has a near symmetrical facade with a flat-roofed porch advanced to the center of the ground floor. Deep eaves cornices and a piended grey slate roof with lead ridges are also present. The interiors of both the hall and the manse were not inspected in 2001.

Finally, a pair of square-plan sandstone ashlar gatepiers with corniced necks and decorative caps stand on the north-west side. They support two-leaf iron gates, which are flanked by stepped low ashlar walls surmounted by iron railings.