West Parish Church And War Memorial, 28-30 High Street, Aberdour is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 May 1973. Church hall. 2 related planning applications.
West Parish Church And War Memorial, 28-30 High Street, Aberdour
- WRENN ID
- swift-glass-swift
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1973
- Type
- Church hall
- Address
- West Parish Church And War Memorial, 28-30 High Street, Aberdour, KY3 0SW
- OS grid reference
- NT 190 853
- Coordinates
- 56.05385, -3.30212
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a church hall, originally the parish church, dating from 1790. It is a single-story rectangular structure with four bays, and has modern single-story extensions to the northeast and northwest elevations. The church hall is constructed from coursed, tooled stone with cherry-cocking on the southeast elevation, and rendered on the remaining elevations. Raised, polished ashlar margins highlight the openings, featuring raised imposts and keystones. The quoins are finished with long and short polished ashlar. A base course and eaves course are present, culminating in a moulded eaves cornice.
A World War I and II memorial by F.W. Deas is centrally positioned on the principal (southeast) elevation, breaking the eaves with its full height. The memorial features a raised plinth with bevelled, curved moulding and flanking pilasters, topped by a broken pediment with egg and dart moulding. A carved stone female figure holding a wreath is set within a niche. A central tablet lists the names of those who died in World War I (1914-1919) and World War II, accompanied by the inscription "Remember the men of Aberdour who gave their lives in the cause of freedom, pro patria”. Large round-headed windows flank the memorial, with further round-headed windows positioned near the full height. Doors are situated in the lower section. A modern granite plaque commemorates Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, positioned between the first and second bays at head height.
The southwest elevation has a centered rectangular window at gallery level. The northwest elevation features a late 20th-century single-story extension to the right, with a large rectangular window to the left. The northeast elevation has a single-story modern extension and a blocked window in the upper section.
Timber boarded doors are present, along with 24-pane timber sash and case windows with an upper Y tracery section in the second and third bays. The first and fourth bays have 16-pane sash and case windows with an upper Y tracery section, each with a door below. The roof is pitched and covered in grey slate. Raised, coped ashlar skews are present. A coped, rendered wallhead stack is located on the north gable, featuring a circular clay can. A slightly projecting, open arched bellcote is situated on the southwest gable, with a stone plinth, squared columns at each corner, a shallow stone dome, and a weathercock.
The interior has been modernized in the late 20th century, but retains earlier features including tongue and groove timber wainscoting in the main hall and a stone spiral staircase leading to a modernised gallery.
A large graveyard extends to the rear and up the northwest slope, predominantly featuring gravestones from the early to mid 19th century.
Random rubble boundary walls enclose the site. A Greek-style doorway is located on the north side, comprised of broad pillars, a heavy entablature, and a shallow pediment.
Local climate
West Parish Church And War Memorial, 28-30 High Street, Aberdour receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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