Monimail Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Church. 1 related planning application.
Monimail Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- gentle-cobble-plover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Monimail Parish Church, KY15 7RJ
- OS grid reference
- NO 302 141
- Coordinates
- 56.31462, -3.12958
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Monimail Parish Church is a T-plan church built in 1796 by mason Thomas Faulkner of Cupar, with a tower added by James Gillespie Graham in 1811. The church is constructed of whin rubble, featuring contrasting yellow ashlar dressings. The east gable showcases a four-stage Gothic tower, which has blocked round-headed openings on the south elevation and partially blocked rectangular openings on the east elevation. Each face of the top stage has a round-headed, louvred opening, and the tower is supported by stepped angle buttresses with pinnacles, linked by a corbelled battlemented parapet.
The church's body has a symmetrical south elevation, highlighted by a central Venetian window with a blind centre light, flanked by two outer round-headed windows with ogee tracery. There are doors in the outer bays, one of which is blocked, and a square-headed window on the north side, along with a round-headed window at the gallery level on the gable end of the T. A low gabled session house projects from the east side.
Inside, the church features a hexagonal pulpit with a pilastered and panelled back-board on the south wall. There is a semi-octagonal gallery with a panelled front supported by a Tuscan column, and some box pews are present. The decorative ceiling includes roses, and there are leaded glass windows made by William Wilson. Marble monuments flank the pulpit, created by John Steel from Edinburgh. To the left is a monument to David, 8th Earl of Leven, 7th Earl of Melville and family, dated 1865, and to the right is a monument to Major Alexander Viscount Balgonie, dated 1859. The church also has panelled doors with original latches. The tower contains a circular stone stair and houses four bells, one of which is dated 1753.
Local climate
Monimail Parish Church receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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