St Margaret's Queen Of Scotland Episcopal Church, Victoria Road, Leven is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Church.
St Margaret's Queen Of Scotland Episcopal Church, Victoria Road, Leven
- WRENN ID
- vacant-barrel-bistre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1979
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Margaret’s Queen Of Scotland Episcopal Church is an aisless Gothic church built in 1880 by Matthews and Mackenzie of Aberdeen, with a church hall added in 1902. The church comprises a three-bay nave, a low chancel, transepts, a porch, and a circular tower corbelled to an octagonal belfry stage with a slated spire. It is constructed from squared and snecked rock-faced rubble with polished ashlar dressings, featuring a base, partial moulded cill course and eaves course. Openings are pointed- and basket-arched, with sawtooth-coped battered buttresses, raked cills, hoodmoulds bearing label-stops, and plate tracery using stone mullions. The building incorporates boarded timber doors with decorative ironwork hinges.
The south elevation features three plate-traceried windows, a projecting porch in the left bay with deeply chamfered reveals and low flanking buttresses, and a tower set in a re-entrant angle. To the right is a transeptal chapel with a raised centre three-light window and flanking low buttresses, alongside a bipartite window to the outer right. The squat, three-stage tower has a spire. The first stage has a cill course and a small window, the second shows a slight reduction with two small stair windows, and the polygonal third stage has louvered openings leading to a conical-roofed, finialled spire.
The north elevation mirrors the south, with three plate-traceried windows to the nave, a transept (vestry) with a tripartite window and a basket-arched door, and a bipartite window to the outer left. The east elevation has a broad gable with flanking buttresses and a dominant, raised centre three-light window. The west elevation is similar to the east but includes a trefoil opening in the gablehead.
The windows have leaded diamond pattern glazing, along with stained glass. Grey slates cover the roof, with a fishscale pattern on the spire. The skews are ashlar-coped with gablet skewputts, topped by a stone Celtic cross finial to the east of the nave.
Inside, the church features a fine alabaster altarpiece from 1900, flanked by alabaster panels, original stencilled decoration with fleur de lis and crowns, and timber choir stalls in the chancel. The interior also includes encaustic floor tiles, fixed timber pews, boarded dadoes, and a timber barrel roof. A stone pulpit and Baptismal font are also present. Stained glass windows include an east window depicting “Crucifixion” (1900), “Adoration of the Magi” and “Christ among the Doctors in the Temple” (1908), and “Baptism, Fasting, Temptation” by Margaret Chilton (1948) within the south nave windows. Further windows depict SS Brendan and Bride (circa 1950), "Christ as Good Shepherd and Good Samaritan" (circa 1930), and "Let the Little Ones Come Unto Me" (G Maile Studios circa 1950) in the north nave. These are believed to have been designed by the glass designer Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907).
The site is enclosed by saddleback- and semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.
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