White Memorial Church, Church Road, Leven

Alex C Dewar, Leven, 1914. Simple, gothic-fronted, rectangular-plan, apsidal, aisless church. Red Dumfriesshire sandstone ashlar porch, squared and snecked rubble to gable and red bricks to sides and rear. Moulded segmental-headed doorcase; pointed and hoodmoulded traceried window. 2-stage saw-tooth coped battered buttresses; stone and brick mullions.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: steps up to almost full-width battlemented porch with 2-leaf panelled timber door and decorative wrought-iron hinges, and continuous hoodmould with decorative finial; chamfered outer angles each with small traceried window. Celtic cross-finialled gable behind with large 5-light traceried window (figurative stained glass to centre light) and flanking attenuated slender pinnacles, outer angles with angle buttresses breaking eaves into crenellated screen.

SE ELEVATION: 4-bays each bay with square-headed bipartite window and dividing buttresses. Lower piended bay to outer left with door and adjacent window to right.

NW ELEVATION: mirrors that to SE.

SW ELEVATION: lower, piend-roofed elevation with bipartite window to centre bay, flanking single windows and further bipartites to outer bays. Basement access to outer right.

Multi-pane leaded glazing, stained glass (see below), and plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows to rear. Westmoreland slates. Coped brick stacks; ashlar-coped skews and deeply overhanging eaves.

INTERIOR: hammerbeam roof springing from moulded corbels; sloping floor; all woodwork pitch pine, including boarded and panelled dadoes, and fixed pews with umbrella holders. Pointed apsidal arch to dais with timber pilasters, carved pulpit and panelling with doors; Baptistry to middle of platform. Stained glass by Mr Esplin (see Notes), 1938.

GATEPIER, GATES AND BOUNDARY WALLS: pyramidally-coped square-section gatepier to SE with decorative cast-iron gates (1 lying to side of opening) and terracotta-coped boundary walls.