St Columba's Parish Church, Church Street, Glenrothes is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 2004.

St Columba's Parish Church, Church Street, Glenrothes

WRENN ID
vast-copper-marsh
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 2004
OS grid reference
NO 269 009
Coordinates
56.19522, -3.17851
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Columba's Parish Church in Glenrothes, designed by Wheeler & Sproson between 1958 and 1962, is a single-storey church with a centrally planned clerestory. The exterior is harled, featuring a wide timber band above and stained glass in the clerestory, which is now obscured by external corrugated plastic. The building has gabled elevations and lower projecting sections that are also harled. A distinctive tall triangular bell tower is attached to the northwest.

The south elevation serves as the entrance and features a gabled design with a timber band and corrugated plastic covering the upper level. There is a lower projecting blind section with windows in the re-entrant angle, and a central advanced entrance that includes a recessed two-leaf timber door with narrow glazed red inserts. To the left of the entrance is a datestone with a carved Celtic cross and the date "4th June 1960." A simple flat-roofed canopy with slender supports provides shelter at the entrance. To the left, a recessed lower single-storey wing offers access to a large hall that is set at right angles to the northwest and has an asymmetrically pitched roof.

Inside, the church features timber and brick construction, with a Mondrian-inspired Belgian stained glass clerestory and an aluminium roof. There is an en suite timber font, lectern, and communion table, along with a brick and timber pulpit. A notable 51 by 8-foot mural by Alberto Morocco depicts The Way of the Cross, and there are timber pews throughout.

The bell tower is a six-stage steel structure, standing 70 feet tall, with slatted vertical panels on the south elevation.

Local climate

St Columba's Parish Church, Church Street, Glenrothes 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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