Raith Church, 111 Links Road, Kirkcaldy

Raith Church, located at 111 Links Road in Kirkcaldy, was built in 1875, incorporating elements from 1843. This gabled and aisled church is situated on sloping ground and features a four-bay nave and a six-bay gallery. The exterior includes a narthex, a traceried rose window, and three-stage buttresses that have a polygonal second stage and a round third stage with a frieze. The building is constructed from rock-faced ashlar and sandstone rubble, with polished long and short quoins. It has pointed-arch openings, plate tracery, and hoodmoulds with label-stops, as well as chamfered reveals and stone mullions.

On the principal (south) elevation, all openings are pointed-arch. The dominant center gable has double steps leading up to a porch with a stiff-leaf finial, featuring floreate capitalled nook-shafts and battered buttresses. This porch flanks a two-leaf boarded timber door and a boarded fanlight that retains its tracery, although a modern canopy projects from the center. Small bipartite windows are located in the flanking bays, and there is a broad five-light window in the gablehead, with the outer lights being plate-traceried. The whole structure is flanked by three-stage buttresses and smaller flanking gables that have two-light traceried windows and clasping buttresses at the outer angles.

The northeast elevation is triple-gabled and sits at a high ground level, featuring blinded lancets at the base flanking the center bay, which has a large traceried rose window in the gablehead.

The west elevation consists of six bays, with all openings being square-headed. It includes a variety of elements such as six bipartite gallery windows, a stack between the outer right bays, and three small louvered roof vents.

The east elevation mirrors the west elevation but has steps leading up to a door beyond a blocked outer right window.

Some small-pane leaded glazing has been retained. The church features coped ashlar stacks, ashlar-coped skews, and moulded skewputts, along with decorative terracotta ridge tiles.

Inside, there is a raked, horseshoe gallery supported by cast-iron columns, with arcaded gallery windows overlooking the nave.

The boundary walls are made of semi-circular-coped rubble, complemented by a decorative cast-iron stanchion.