Church Hall, Parish Church, Oakfield Street, Kelty is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 1996.
Church Hall, Parish Church, Oakfield Street, Kelty
- WRENN ID
- young-stair-heron
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1996
- OS grid reference
- NT 144 941
- Coordinates
- 56.13277, -3.37864
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Parish Church on Oakfield Street in Kelty was built between 1894 and 1896 by John Houston. This simple Gothic church features a distinctive western end and is constructed from rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings, while the western end and stair tower are made of squared stone. The church has pointed arch lancet windows.
The entrance elevation includes a broad pointed arch doorway at the center, which has a hoodmould and is filled with a pair of doorways topped by an ashlar gablehead. Battered buttresses with sawtooth coping flank the entrance, and there are small narrow lancets on either side. Above the doorway is a large circular window with a hoodmould, featuring cusped, cruciform, metal tracery. At the apex, there is a birdcage bellcote with a slated apron, a timber-formed opening that is part-railed, and a tall slated pinnacle above, all supported by overhanging, bracketed eaves.
The north elevation, facing Station Road, has six bays. An advanced gabled transept is located on the outer left, featuring three stepped lights. The center bays of the nave have four tall lancets, while the outer bay to the right has a projecting semicircular stair tower with a corbel course at the height of the neighboring imposts and four small lights above. The stair tower has a half-conical roof topped with a finial. The transept and porch project to the rear.
The church features colored glass in square leaded panes, with protective perspex sheets applied externally. The roof is covered with purple slates, and there are coped skews and red ridge tiles, along with leaded aprons remaining from ridge ventilators. The interior was not seen in 1996.
Adjacent to the church is a church hall that matches the church in both material and design. This gabled rectangular-plan hall has a pointed arch door at the center of the gable facing the street, accompanied by a fanlight and flanking pointed arch lights. The gablehead features an oculus, and the lights and fanlight have Y-tracery, with protective perspex sheets. The hall also has coped skews and a slate roof.
The property is enclosed by a dwarf boundary wall with saddleback coping, which steps at intervals and has railings in front of the hall.
Local climate
Church Hall, Parish Church, Oakfield Street, Kelty receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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