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
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 October 1996
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NT 230 986
Coordinates
56.17462, -3.24072
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The former Free Church on Main Street in Kinglassie was built in 1844, with minor additions made in the late 19th century. It features a rectangular plan with a three-bay, aisless nave and a small L-plan porch. The church is constructed from squared and snecked dark whinstone, with remnants of harl or dry-dash on the sides and rear, and contrasting droved quoins and raised margins. The openings are pointed-arch, and there is a sandstone moulded doorcase with chamfered reveals, along with a two-stage, saw-tooth coped buttress and voussoirs.

On the south elevation, the three-bay nave is to the left and includes tall traceried windows, with small (possibly modern) ventilators between the bays. There are also three small timber-louvred dormer ventilators with terracotta finials along the roof ridge. The lower porch is attached at the outer right and features a two-leaf boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges set in a gabled doorcase that has a blind niche in the gablehead, a floreate finial, and a buttress to the right. There is a small window with a moulded lintel on the return to the right and another window on the recessed face to the outer right, both of which are blocked.

The east elevation shows the porch with a gablehead stack projecting at ground level, a blocked oculus above, and a slender stone saw-tooth coped bellcote with a bell at the gablehead. The west elevation has a tall Y-traceried window at the center, with a blocked oculus above and an ashlar finialled gablehead. The north elevation features two tall blinded windows with small ventilators on the outer right and left.

The church has leaded, coloured, small-pane glazing in the timber Y-traceried windows. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and corrugated tin on the porch. It has stepped, ashlar-coped skews, moulded skewputts, and a coped ashlar stack, along with decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials, and decorative cast-iron hoppers on the south side.

The interior was not seen in 1996. The boundary walls surrounding the property are low and feature saddleback coping and rubble-coped whinstone.

Local climate

Former Free Church, Main Street, Kinglassie receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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