Balbirnie United Free Church, Balbirnie Street, Markinch

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 24/11/1972 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Markinch NGR NO 29518 01774 Coordinates 329518, 701774 — Hippolyte J Blanc, 1896-8, converted to flats 1993. Gothic detailed church; 6-bay nave with aisle to W below swept roof between transept and porch, prominent pagoda-style ventilator at ridge; single storey hall adjoining at S. Squared and snecked bull-faced rubble, polished ashlar dressings, single and saw-tooth coped battered buttresses; chamfered coping to base course, partial string course, block eaves course; reticulated stone-tracery to windows (pointed and square-headed), hoodmoulds, chamfered reveals. Metal window grilles to E and W. N (STREET) ELEVATION: gable end with string course below large 6-light traceried window at centre below hoodmould extending across 2nd and 3rd stage of flanking gablet-coped buttresses and terminating in grotesque label-stops, blind tracery in stonework at gablehead; single stage angle buttress to outer left and modern timber door below slate canopy to right, further single stage angle buttress with carved inscription ?This memorial stone was laid by JHB Melville Esq (PCM?) 19th Sep. 1896? beyond adjoining porch with glazed oculus below string course. W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: large projecting transept gable to right with 4-light plate-traceried window below hoodmould, and flanking gabletted, 2-stage angle buttresses; 3 3-light traceried windows to single storey centre (some tracery removed) with modern windows and with roof swept down from nave; smaller projecting entrance gable to outer left with part-blinded pointed-arch doorway to right converted to window and small window to left; decorative slate-hung ventilator with weathervane at ridge slightly to right of centre. Lower hall adjoining at o

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.