St Margaret's Parish Church, Woodside Road, Glenrothes is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1996. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Margaret's Parish Church, Woodside Road, Glenrothes
- WRENN ID
- wild-spire-mist
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1996
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Margaret's Parish Church, Woodside Road, Glenrothes, KY7 5HD
- OS grid reference
- NO 285 002
- Coordinates
- 56.18932, -3.1527
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Margaret's Parish Church, located on Woodside Road in Glenrothes, was designed by Peter Sinclair and completed in 1953. This rectangular hall church features a horizontal emphasis and is influenced by Northern European modernist architecture. It has a pyramidal roof and a square belltower. The exterior is finished in harl with stone or concrete cills, and it includes a pointed arch doorway made of ashlar.
The tower is largely free-standing, with an engagement at the northwest corner. It has a deep-set, two-leaf panelled timber door on the north side, which is topped by a small commemorative stone that reads "To the Glory of God, 29th September 1953." There are three small windows on the returns to the right and left at ground level, and five narrow windows near the eaves on each face of the tower. A decorative wrought iron weathervane finial adorns the top.
On the north elevation, which serves as the entrance, there are thirteen small, regular windows positioned close to the eaves of the steeply pitched roof. There is also a lower, flat-roofed extension that wraps around the northeast corner. The east elevation features a gable with a cruciform window at the center, a small window to the left at ground level, and a lower flat-roofed extension adjoining at the outer left. The west elevation presents a blank gable above the lower flat-roofed extension. The south elevation includes a projecting wing with later extensions attached.
The church has small pane glazing in hopper-type windows and is covered with red tiles, while the skews are coped with ashlar.
Inside, the church features a wide chancel arch made of chamfered, polished ashlar, with a stained glass cross window at the center. There is a round-headed window with leaded, small pane, coloured glass in the returns to the north (hall) and south (vestry). The interior also includes fixed elders' seats, a panelled timber pulpit, a Communion Table, and a font. Decorative wrought iron chancel screen gates with folding doors are located in round-headed doorways. Additionally, there are commemorative stained glass windows created by John Blyth, and an advanced, raised stage is situated to the west.
Local climate
St Margaret's Parish Church, Woodside Road, Glenrothes 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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