Former Free Church, Main Street, Kinglassie is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1996. Church.

Former Free Church, Main Street, Kinglassie

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 October 1996
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

1844, minor late 19th century additions. Rectangular-plan, Free Church with 3-bay, aisless nave and small, L-plan porch. Squared and snecked dark whinstone, remains of harl/dry-dash to sides and rear, contrasting droved quoins and raised margins. Pointed-arch openings, sandstone moulded doorcase with chamfered reveals, 2-stage, saw-tooth coped buttress and voussoirs.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay nave to left with tall traceried windows, small (modern?) ventilators between bays; 3 small, timber-louvred, terracotta-finialled dormer ventilators adjoining roof ridge. Lower porch adjoining at outer right, 2-leaf boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges in gabled doorcase with blind niche in gablehead, floreate finial and buttress to right, small window with moulded lintel on return to right and further window on recessed face to outer right (both windows blocked).

E ELEVATION: porch with gablehead stack projecting at ground, blocked oculus above and slender, stone saw-tooth coped bellcote, with bell, at gablehead.

W ELEVATION: tall Y-traceried window at centre with blocked oculus above and ashlar finialled gablehead.

N ELEVATION: 2 tall, blinded windows with small ventilators to outer right and left.

Leaded, coloured, small-pane glazing in timber Y-traceried windows. Graded grey slates, corrugated tin to porch roof. Stepped, ashlar-coped skews, moulded skewputts and coped ashlar stack; decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials; decorative cast-iron hoppers to S.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low saddleback-coped and rubble-coped whinstone boundary walls.

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