Churchyard, Carnbee Parish Church, Carnbee is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Church.

Churchyard, Carnbee Parish Church, Carnbee

WRENN ID
tired-railing-falcon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Built 1793-4. Simple rectangular-plan 6-bay church with low session house to west. Rubble-built with ashlar margins. 4 tall, round-headed windows with simple Y-tracery, square-headed door to each outer bay of long south wall: single small opening only on north wall.

Segmental-arched window on west gable below tiny blind oculus and re-used birdcage bellcote with tall pyramidal curved roof, taken from earlier church building. Piend-roofed low vestry, built 1838, has door to west elevation, window to south. Slate roofs.

Interior: seating plan altered before 1908, and gallery on east wall only remains. Church re-opened 1908 following

alterations by Sir Robert Lorimer, architect; simple oak-panelled dado against west wall with central pulpit,

carved with figures and with vine & grape decoration above carving by Clow brothers, Edinburgh. Oak font, also designed by Lorimer, and carved by William Wheeler Jnr of Arncroach.

Stained glass window in west wall inserted after 1886. 2 sets of Heraldic arms hang in gallery, those of Henry Bethune of Kilconquhar (dated 1787) and those of the 1st Earl of Kellie.

Churchyard enclosed by rubble-built walls with square-plan ashlar gatepiers.

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