Buckhaven Parish Church, Church Street, Buckhaven

Buckhaven Parish Church is a 1899 Gothic-detailed church of rectangular plan. It has octagonal pinnacles and a bellcote. The church is built with narrow ashlar bands contrasted by broader bands to engaged octagonal buttresses rising as pinnacles. A base course and string courses incorporate hoodmoulds at the nave front. The buttresses are two-stage with sawtooth copings. Pointed-arch openings have chamfered reveals.

The northeast elevation, facing Church Street, features a broad gable with engaged octagonal buttresses flanking a central bay. This bay contains a deeply moulded doorcase with a paired timber door, a dividing pillar, and panelled doors below a traceried fanlight. Above the door is a large four-light traceried window; a small blind oculus sits below a corbelled bellcote. Tall lancet windows are located in the flanking bays, with ball finials at the outer angles.

The southwest elevation contains a tall, narrow raised three-light window to the centre, with a small opening above. A base of a cross finial is at the gablehead. A low piended extension projects at ground level.

The southeast elevation, facing Randolph Street, is a three-bay design with dividing buttresses. It has a tall, narrow raised three-light window to the centre and wider, tall two-light windows in the flanking bays. The northwest elevation mirrors this design.

Most of the window glass is frosted, with stained glass windows detailed internally. The roof is covered with grey slates. Ashlar-coped stepped skews have moulded skewputts and stone finials.

Inside, the original panelled gallery fronts and supporting narrow columns have been retained, although the ceiling was lowered at gallery level, and the gallery space is now individual rooms. Original timber pews remain, though they have been moved from their original positions. The chancel contains a carved timber Communion table, a font, and a canted pulpit with flanking steps leading to a full-width organ. A narthex features stained glass above the main door. An inner wall has a pointed-arch tripartite ashlar window; the central light displays a Crucifixion by Marjorie Kemp, flanked by leaded diamond glazing. Stained glass windows to the north depict works from a Community Programme. Those to the south depict the churches of St Michael, St Andrew and St David.

The octagonal stone font, which also serves as a bird bath, is inscribed "SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME." Five square-section, coped ashlar gatepiers are located on Church Street. Semicircular-coped rubble and flat-coped boundary walls incorporate inset railings.