White Memorial Church, Church Road, Leven is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 September 1999. Church.
White Memorial Church, Church Road, Leven
- WRENN ID
- silver-gallery-burdock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 September 1999
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
White Memorial Church, located on Church Road in Leven, was designed by Alex C Dewar in 1914. It is a simple, gothic-fronted church with a rectangular plan and an apsidal shape, lacking aisles. The church features a porch made of red Dumfriesshire sandstone ashlar, with squared and snecked rubble on the gable and red bricks on the sides and rear. The entrance has a moulded segmental-headed doorcase and a pointed window with a hoodmould and traceries. The exterior includes two-stage saw-tooth coped battered buttresses and stone and brick mullions.
On the northeast elevation, there are steps leading up to a nearly full-width battlemented porch, which contains a two-leaf panelled timber door with decorative wrought-iron hinges. The porch has a continuous hoodmould with a decorative finial and small traceried windows at the chamfered outer angles. Behind the porch is a gable topped with a Celtic cross finial, featuring a large five-light traceried window with figurative stained glass in the center and slender pinnacles on either side, along with angle buttresses that break the eaves into a crenellated screen.
The southeast elevation consists of four bays, each with square-headed bipartite windows and dividing buttresses. The outer left bay has a lower piended roof with a door, and there is a window adjacent to the right. The northwest elevation mirrors the southeast elevation. The southwest elevation is lower and has a piend roof, with a bipartite window in the center bay, flanked by single windows and additional bipartite windows in the outer bays. There is basement access on the outer right.
The church features multi-pane leaded glazing, stained glass, and plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows at the rear, with a roof covered in Westmoreland slates. The building has coped brick stacks, ashlar-coped skews, and deeply overhanging eaves.
Inside, the church has a hammerbeam roof that springs from moulded corbels and a sloping floor. All woodwork is pitch pine, including boarded and panelled dadoes and fixed pews with umbrella holders. The pointed apsidal arch leads to the dais, which has timber pilasters, a carved pulpit, and panelling with doors, as well as a Baptistry in the middle of the platform. Stained glass created by Mr Esplin in 1938 is also featured.
Additionally, there is a gatepier to the southeast that has a pyramidally-coped square section and decorative cast-iron gates, with one gate lying to the side of the opening. The boundary walls are terracotta-coped.
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