Episcopal Church Of St Peter, Hope Street, Inverkeithing

Henry F Kerr, 1903; chancel extended 1910. Single storey and basement (in fall of ground to E), 6-bay, rectangular-plan plain Arts & Crafts church. Snecked whinstone rubble; rendered chancel. Smooth ashlar dressings. Pitched timber bellcote to W gablehead; pitched timber porch to S; angle buttresses to chancel; semi-octagonal vestry to S.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: pitched-roof, timber-framed and glazed porch with overhanging eaves on snecked ashlar base and glazed and timber boarded double doors to far left; 3 windows to right of porch. Semi-octagonal vestry with 2 small windows and timber boarded door to penultimate bay right; basement and ground floor windows to far right.

E ELEVATION: gable end. Large central, hoodmoulded, pointed-arch window with 3 lancets, plain diamond pane stained glass; tabbed ashlar dressings. Small stone cross finial to gablehead.

N ELEVATION: 6 bays. 5 ground floor windows (penultimate bay left blank); basement window to far left.

W ELEVATION: gable end. 2 windows. Timber bellcote corbelled out at gablehead under pointed stone arch with triangular coping.

2-paned timber windows with lattice pane plain stained glass to upper pane and shaped lower timber frame of pseudo-gothic design. Pitched roof; overhanging bracketed eaves; red concrete pantiles.

BOUNDARY WALL: coped coursed rubble boundary wall to W along Hope Street with low metal gate opening to right.

INTERIOR: timber false hammerbeam roof; low round hoodmoulded ashlar arch leading to chancel (partially blocked by plywood barrier forming double door access, 2003); blind curvilinear traceried oak panelling to dado height surrounding chancel. Small square stone baptismal with octagonal shaft, carved cruciform decoration to bowl.