Raith Church, 111 Links Road, Kirkcaldy is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 February 1997. Church.

Raith Church, 111 Links Road, Kirkcaldy

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 February 1997
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

1875 incorporating 1843 fabric. Gabled and aisled church on ground falling to S; with 4-bay nave and 6-bay gallery, narthex, traceried rose window and 3-stage pinnacled buttresses with polygonal 2nd stage and round 3rd stage with frieze. Base and eaves coursed. Rock faced ashlar and sandstone rubble with polished long and short quoins. Pointed-arch openings, plate tracery, hoodmoulds with label-stops; chamfered reveals and stone mullions.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: all openings pointed-arch. Dominant centre gable with double steps up to stiff-leaf finialled porch with floreate capitalled nook-shafts and battered buttresses flanking 2-leaf boarded timber door and boarded fanlight retaining tracery (modern canopy projecting from centre); small bipartite windows in flanking bays and broad 5-light window (outer lights plate-traceried) in gablehead; the whole flanked by 3-stage buttresses and smaller flanking gables with 2-light traceried windows and clasping buttresses to outer angles.

N ELEVATION: triple-gabled with high ground level. Blinded lancets (with base at ground) flanking centre bay with large traceried rose window in gablehead.

W ELEVATION: 6-bay, all openings square-headed. Variety of elements including 6 bipartite gallery windows, stack between outer right bays and 3 small louvered roof vents.

E ELEVATION: as W elevation but with steps up to door at beyond blocked outer right window.

Some small-pane leaded glazing retained. Coped ashlar stacks, ashlar- coped skews and moulded skewputts. Decorative terracotta ridge tiles.

INTERIOR: raked, horseshoe gallery on cast-iron columns and arcaded gallery windows to nave.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND CAST-IRON STANCHION: semi-circular-coped rubble boundary walls and decorative cast-iron stanchion.

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