Episcopal Church Of St Peter, Hope Street, Inverkeithing

The Episcopal Church of St Peter, located on Hope Street in Inverkeithing, was designed by Henry F Kerr in 1903, with an extension to the chancel completed in 1910. This single-storey church features a basement due to the sloping ground to the east and has a rectangular plan in the plain Arts & Crafts style. The exterior is constructed of snecked whinstone rubble, with a rendered chancel and smooth ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a pitched timber bellcote on the west gable, a pitched timber porch on the south side, angle buttresses on the chancel, and a semi-octagonal vestry also on the south.

On the south elevation, there is a pitched-roof, timber-framed and glazed porch with overhanging eaves, set on a snecked ashlar base, featuring glazed and timber boarded double doors to the far left. To the right of the porch are three windows, and the semi-octagonal vestry has two small windows and a timber boarded door in the penultimate bay. The far right has basement and ground floor windows.

The east elevation presents a gable end with a large central pointed-arch window, adorned with a hoodmould and three lancets featuring plain diamond pane stained glass, framed by tabbed ashlar dressings. A small stone cross finial crowns the gablehead. The north elevation consists of six bays, with five ground floor windows (the penultimate bay left blank) and a basement window on the far left.

The west elevation also features a gable end with two windows and a timber bellcote that is corbelled out at the gablehead beneath a pointed stone arch, topped with triangular coping. The windows throughout are two-paned timber with lattice panes in the upper section and shaped lower timber frames designed in a pseudo-gothic style. The roof is pitched with overhanging bracketed eaves, covered in red concrete pantiles.

A boundary wall made of coped coursed rubble runs along Hope Street to the west, with a low metal gate opening to the right. Inside, the church boasts a timber false hammerbeam roof and a low round hoodmoulded ashlar arch leading to the chancel, which is partially blocked by a plywood barrier forming double door access installed in 2003. The chancel is surrounded by blind curvilinear traceried oak panelling up to dado height. Additionally, there is a small square stone baptismal font with an octagonal shaft, featuring carved cruciform decoration on the bowl.