Methodist Church, St Clair Street, Kirkcaldy

The Methodist Church on St Clair Street in Kirkcaldy was built in 1888. It is a low, five-bay, aisless church featuring a small porch and a well-designed interior. The exterior is constructed from bull-faced, squared, and snecked rubble, accented with contrasting ashlar dressings and finished with dry-dash. It has a base course and features a pointed-arch door with a hoodmould and label-stops, along with shouldered window openings and battered coping on the buttresses. The reveals are chamfered.

On the east elevation, there is a small porch with a two-leaf boarded timber door to the outer right. To the left of the porch, there are three bipartite windows and a single window further to the outer left, with buttresses positioned between the windows. A small triangular air vent is located close to the roof ridge at the outer left.

The south elevation presents a three-bay, canted design with a rooflight above the central bay.

The north elevation features a plain gabled bay with a sign to the left and a modern cross at the gablehead.

On the west elevation, there are two windows with metal shutters to the left, and a later hall, which is not included in this listing, is attached to the right. There is also a small air vent similar to the one on the other elevations.

The church has multi-pane glazing with coloured margins, grey slates arranged in decorative vertical bands, and terracotta ridge tiles and finials.

Inside, the church features pointed-arch openings, fixed timber pews with umbrella racks, and a hammerbeam roof supported by moulded corbels. There is a decorative cast-iron roof ventilator, and the canted chancel area includes a panelled dado and a pointed-arch sounding board, with a rooflight above.