Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, East Port, Dunfermline

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, East Port, Dunfermline

This church was designed by R Rowand Anderson in 1891, with a hall added in 1898 also by Anderson. The building comprises a nave and chancel oriented east to west, with a porch and low flat-roofed entrance hall projecting to the west and west end of the north side of the nave. Lower-height vestry structures stand to the north of the chancel, and a rectangular-plan hall adjoins at the west end of the south side of the nave and entrance hall.

The church is built in Perpendicular Gothic style with flowing and panel tracery to the windows, including a large west window and substantial use of ogee tracery, particularly in smaller windows. The construction is coursed rockfaced sandstone with droved ashlar dressings, a base course throughout, low corniced parapets with band courses at the base to flat-roofed sections. Openings have splayed reveals and hood-moulds to the main Gothic-arched openings. Windows are traceried and mullioned throughout. The gables are coped with short gableted shoulders.

On the north elevation facing East Port, a gabled porch with a hood-moulded entrance projects to the outer right of the two-bay nave, with a doorway containing a two-leaf hinged panelled timber door to the inner wall to the right. An entrance hall with a three-light mullioned window adjoins the porch. Hood-moulded windows to each bay of the nave are set back to the left: the left window has four lights and the right has two. The bays are divided by a stepped gableted buttress. The lower-height chancel is set back to the left of the nave, with a gable end of a small vestry structure projecting to the right of it, featuring a hood-moulded rose window to its gable. A flat-roofed structure adjoins to the left with two small windows of single and two lights.

The west elevation facing Viewfield Terrace displays a large hood-moulded window set back to the west end of the nave with two main mullions and panel tracery between them, crowned by a stone cross finial at the apex of the gable above. The entrance hall projects across the width of the nave with three two-light windows to the right. The church hall adjoins, set forward to the right on slightly lower ground level. Steps lead up to a round-arched entrance to a passageway to the left, with a low roofline and gablet to the left and a panelled timber door. A hood-moulded three-light window to the gable end of the hall to the right is topped by a louvred arrowslit.

On the south elevation, the nave of the church is largely obscured by the hall to the left. The hall has three three-light windows, and a harled structure adjoins to the right. A hood-moulded four-light window set back to the nave stands to the right, with a buttress adjoining the gable end of the nave which was formerly attached to a separate structure since demolished. A band of three adjoining two-light hood-moulded windows set back to the lower-height chancel stands to the right. Steps lead down to a basement below.

The east elevation shows a three-light hood-moulded window to the gable end of the chancel. A vestry structure adjoins to the right with a two-light window to the left and an entrance with a boarded timber door set back to the right.

The windows are mainly fixed leaded multi-pane, with several in the nave and chancel incorporating stained glass panels. The pitched roofs are of grey slate with red ridge tiles. A hipped coped wallhead stack with a band course stands to the north side of the chancel.

Interior

The nave and chancel have boarded pointed roofs. A red and black tiled floor covers the entrance hall and open areas of the chancel and nave. The chancel features Gothic panelled dado and choir pews with crocket finials. The nave has plain bench pews. An octagonal timber pulpit with Gothic carving stands in the nave.

The east window depicts the Ascension and dates to 1904. A window by William Wilson from 1963 is also in the chancel. The nave contains stained glass windows including one of the Ascension and Supper at Emmaus by C E Kempe dating to 1906, one by James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd from 1950, and two windows of saints and prophets also from circa 1950.

A carved, gilded and painted reredos from 1904 was designed by Rowand Anderson and executed by Whyttock and Reid, with two angels to the centre panel painted by James Powell & Sons. The organ of 1904 by C and F Hamilton has a richly carved case incorporating trumpeting angels designed by Rowand Anderson. A carved octagonal sandstone font stands on a square base.