Old Anti Burgher Kirk, High Street, Leslie is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Meeting house. 1 related planning application.
Old Anti Burgher Kirk, High Street, Leslie
- WRENN ID
- sharp-chancel-sable
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1979
- Type
- Meeting house
- OS grid reference
- NO 252 017
- Coordinates
- 56.20289, -3.20601
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Anti Burgher Kirk, located on High Street in Leslie, was built in 1744 by William and James Gardener and John Jellson. This altered, single-storey, three-bay rectangular building is constructed of random rubble and originally served as a meeting house for anti-secessionists. It is now used as a joiner's workshop and features some long and shortwork ashlar dressings.
On the south elevation, there are two regular window bays at the center and right, with a door on the left that has been enlarged to create a garage entrance. The north elevation has a door to the right with a dated lintel and a window to the left. The building has broad gables on both the east and west sides.
Inside, there is an ogival canopy sounding board above the pulpit, made by Peter Wilkie in 1745, and chains below the site of a gallery that were reputedly used for the punishment of sinners. The roof is covered with corrugated asbestos, and the stepped ashlar skews feature beak skewputts and block finial bases at the gableheads.
Local climate
Old Anti Burgher Kirk, High Street, Leslie 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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