Kinglassie Kirk, Church Lane, Kinglassie is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Church.

Kinglassie Kirk, Church Lane, Kinglassie

WRENN ID
open-roof-crimson
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kinglassie Kirk is a single-storey, seven-bay church dating back to a 1773 restoration, which incorporated fabric from a possible 15th-century building. The restoration work was carried out by Roger Black and Robert Baxter, masons, and James Lawson, wright, and included rebuilding the south wall, replacing windows, the roof, and the bellcote. Further alterations were made in 1839 by James Gillespie Graham, 1884 by John Murray of Kirkcaldy, 1887 by Peddie & Kinnear, who heightened the building and replaced the roof, and in 1890 by Hislop of Kirkcaldy, who added an east extension and a round window to the north transept.

The church is constructed of dressed, squared, snecked, and coursed sandstone rubble with dressed and polished ashlar quoins, featuring round-headed openings and chamfered reveals. It has an irregular T-plan, which is essentially an L-plan with a minor projection to the west, and includes a birdcage bellcote.

The south elevation features a pair of boarded timber doors, positioned to the outer right and left, flanked by five irregularly disposed windows. A 1890 extension steps back slightly, with a slated timber birdcage ventilator with baluster bars at the junction. The east elevation has a broad advanced gable with two windows to the left, two windows returning to the right, and a further window on the recessed face, below a small, timber-louvred roof ventilator. The west elevation displays a broad advanced gable to the right, a small window at the centre, and a corbelled birdcage bellcote in the gablehead. The recessed face to the left has a further window at the centre and two pairs of what are described as 'marriage' lintels to the right, with a small timber-louvred roof ventilator above. The north elevation presents a broad gable with a small, rubble and timber gabled porch at the centre, a door on the return to the left, a round window, and a louvred oculus in the gablehead.

The windows have small-pane, coloured, leaded glazing, with stained glass in the round window. The roof is covered with grey slates and ashlar-coped skews.

The interior includes a small vestibule leading to an L-plan church, with a chancel area to the west. There is a panelled pulpit with a finialled back board behind the communion table. The nave to the east has fixed timber pews, a boarded dado with blind, round-arched arcading, segmental-headed soffits, plain cornicing, and a stepped ceiling. A small panelled gallery is located at the west end, and marble monuments are set into the south wall, dedicated to Major General Sir William Reid and serving as a war memorial. The north transept contains decorative plasterwork, a marble wall monument to John Aytoun of Inchdairnie, dated 1831, and the round window displays a monogram belonging to the Mitchell family. Timber pews and a dado are also found in the north transept.

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