Free Church, East Leven Street, Burntisland is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1977. Church tower.
Free Church, East Leven Street, Burntisland
- WRENN ID
- quartered-hinge-ebony
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1977
- Type
- Church tower
- OS grid reference
- NT 233 857
- Coordinates
- 56.05825, -3.23295
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free Church on East Leven Street in Burntisland was built in 1843 and the site was redeveloped in 1988 after the original church was destroyed by fire in 1986. The entrance and belfry are designed in an Italianate style, while the remaining walls have been adapted for a public sitting area. The structure features ashlar stone with quoin strips, band courses, and stone mullions.
The belfry is a three-stage tower, which includes a blind Venetian window at the ground level beneath a bracketed coping. The second stage has a blind oculus on each face, and the third stage features a round-headed opening for the bellcote, with cast-iron grilles on each side and a corniced pyramidal cap topped with a spike finial.
The former entrance has been converted into a pedestrian gateway, characterized by a blockish, square-headed, deeply chamfered opening, with a cast-iron lamp bracket facing the street.
The boundary walls are low and made of coped ashlar stone along the street, with coped random rubble walls that include steps leading down to the site.
Local climate
Free Church, East Leven Street, Burntisland 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 lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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