St Columba' S Church, Inverkeithing Road, Aberdour

1830s. Squat cruciform-plan gothic chapel, with bellcote. Snecked, coursed, tooled stone. Long and short droved ashlar to arises and window margins. Base course, eaves course. Pointed hoodmoulds to openings with stops.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation. Central doorpiece; flanking nook shafts with bell capitals, roll moulded pointed arch, pointed hoodmould with carved green-man stops. Central, tripartite, pointed arch lancet window above door, central lancet taller. Central apex niche with moulded corbel set between 2 moulded corbels supporting trefoil head to base of bellcote. Bellcote with open pointed arch; hoodmould with stops, chamfered arises, flanking side buttresses, 4 gablets to roof, stylised, decorated cross to centre of roof.

N ELEVATION: advanced gabled transept to off-centre left; plate traceried double lancet with central quatrefoil above, pointed hoodmould with stops. Central apex niche with moulded corbel. 2 chamfered, pointed arch lancet windows setback to right. Plain short wall of squat chancel setback to left.

E ELEVATION: advanced chancel; tripartite pointed arch lancet at head height to centre, central lancet taller.

S ELEVATION: similar to N Elevation but with transept advanced to off-centre right.

Timber 2-leaf door with decorative pointed arch raised beading to each leaf and triangular motif. Diamond-paned leaded lights. Pitched slate roof, capped gablet skewputs to each gable. Raised ashlar saw- toothed skews to each gable.

INTERIOR: vestibule; 2 timber arched panelled doors to E leading to main body of church. Stone carved font set between doors; trefoiled niches to pier, quatrefoils to basin. Timber, arched, panelled door to S leading to small WC. Timber, arched, panelled door to N leading to stone spiral staircase to gallery above. Nave and Chancel; tongue and groove timber wainscoting throughout, timber pews running full length of chancel, seven sided timber pulpit to N transept; decorative detailing, moulded base, quatrefoils set within panels, moulded cornice, door missing, 2002. Box-pews to S transept. Slightly overhanging modern timber and plate glass partition wall enclosing 1st floor balcony to W, stained glass panel centred to base. Fine vaulted ceiling painted turquoise with white ribs; 3 pointed transverse ribs supported by moulded corbels to nave and chancel, quadripartite pointed arch supported by four vaulting shafts to crossing; centrally decorated boss with plant motifs, light fitting suspended from centre. Pointed wall rib to W, N, E, S supported by moulded corbels.