United Free Church, Normand Road, Dysart

The United Free Church, built in 1867 by James Brown, is a rectangular-plan church constructed in a plain Gothic style with a later hall added in 1936. The church features a two-stage tower topped by a broach spire. The building is rectangular in plan, with a five-bay nave and a gabled church hall to the west. It is constructed of narrow blocks of stugged and squared rubble with ashlar quoins, with coursed rubble to the west. The pointed-arch openings are narrow, and the buttresses are saw-tooth coped with raised centre windows and hoodmoulds to the tower.

The east elevation, facing Normand Road, has a gable set to the right of centre with steps leading to a deeply-chamfered doorway, containing a two-leaf panelled timber door and a matching fanlight, both with a hoodmould extending to a band course. A raised central tripartite window is present, along with a glazed quatrefoil in the gablehead, topped by a broken Celtic cross finial. A further door and window are located to the outer right. The tower is set to the left.

The southeastern tower incorporates, on its first stage, an east-facing door below a hoodmoulded window, a south-facing window with a hoodmould, and a dividing course incorporating a glazed multi-foil opening. The second stage features louvered tripartite openings to each face, surmounted by a broach spire with a ball-and-spike finial.

The south elevation, facing Station Road, has three windows centrally, flanked by buttresses, with further windows to the outer bays. A buttress is situated to the left, and the tower adjoins the outer right. The lower gable of the hall is slightly set back to the outer left, featuring a window and a narrow opening within the cross-finialled gablehead.

The western elevation has a broad gable behind the roof of the hall, displaying a blocked roundel, flanking lancets, and a vesica in the gablehead, with a stack.

The northern elevation mirrors the southern elevation with an additional window to the left, all boarded. It also includes a basement entrance with low railings to the outer left.

The church has multi-pane leaded glazing, ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts, and stone finials.

The interior is largely intact and features a horseshoe gallery with decorative plasterwork to the moulded balcony, supported by slender cast-iron columns with decorative capitals. Timber pews are present both on the ground floor and in the gallery. A Gothic-style timber pulpit includes a double stair. Decorative cast-iron balustrades are found on the staircases leading to the gallery.

The boundary walls are low coped rubble structures, some with inset decorative cast-iron railings. Two pairs of pyramidal-coped, stop-chamfered ashlar gatepiers support decorative cast-iron gates, with an arch to the main entrance on the southeast side.