Erskine United Free Church, Kinghorn Road, Burntisland

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1977 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Burntisland NGR NT 23810 86285 Coordinates 323810, 686285 — John Bennie Wilson, 1903. Gothic church with entrance tower. 3-bay nave with side aisles and angle buttresses. Rock-faced rubble with polished ashlar dressings and dressed ashlar tower, 2-stage saw-tooth coped buttresses, 2-stage chamfered plinth, moulded string course incorporating continuous hoodmould, architraved cornice. Reticulated traceried S window, hoodmoulds with foliate label stops, chamfered reveals and stone mullions. Part-glazed 2-leaf panelled doors. S ELEVATION: 2-stage gable end with 3 bipartite cusped windows and flanking buttresses, large 5-light window at 2nd stage, flanked by coped batter of buttresses to impost height; angled skew blocks at wallhead and Celtic cross finial at gablehead. TOWER: 4-stage entrance tower with clasping polygonal tower to SW corner. Flight of 10 steps with flanking 2-stage walls leading to door in heavily moulded pointed-arch door frame, cusped niche in tympanum below hoodmould with label stop to right and continuous hoodmould to left encompassing polygonal tower; buttress to right and narrow light to left on polygonal angle stair tower, further narrow cusped light to W face. Saw-tooth coped batter with decorative corbel table above door giving way to 2nd stage with narrow cusped light near top; W face with 2 light plate traceried window, narrow light in stair tower and narrow cusped light near top; narrow cusped light to N face over slope of nave roof. 3rd stage, S face with narrow light to left on stair tower over string course, clock with Roman numerals to centre and further narrow light to stair tower. Batter giving way to 4th stage belfry with traceried louvred opening to each

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.