Pathhead Evangelical Union Congregational Church, Pathhead Court, Kirkcaldy

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 26/03/1998 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Kirkcaldy NGR NT 28636 92540 Coordinates 328636, 692540 — Dated 1869. Rectangular-plan, plain, castellated Tudor gothic church with 5-bay nave and battlemented porch. Narrow ashlar blocks with ashlar dressings, rubble to sides and harl to rear. Pointed-arch openings, hoodmoulds to S, stone mullions and chamfered arrises. S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled elevation with just 'crenellated' porch, 2-leaf timber door and plate glass fanlight with flanking narrow bipartite windows all below continuous hoodmould; date to centre above. Recessed face of church with tall windows flanking porch and raised centre tripartite window in gablehead below 2 tiny lights flanking corbel of crenellated, polygonal turret finial. N ELEVATION: 2 tall windows flanking oculus in gablehead. E AND W ELEVATIONS: 5 tall regularly disposed windows. Diamond-pane leaded glazing with coloured margins. Grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts. INTERIOR: fixed timber pews and boarded timber dado. Coloured glass to N windows. HALL: L-plan hall to N. N gable with pointed-arch window flanked by square-headed windows, and further pointed-arch window to W gable. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The Evangelical Union first met in Pathhead Town Hall in 1865; the Church was formed on 22nd September 1867, with the building opened for public worship on 27th July, 1870. Due to fire damage the church was closed for a while in 1956 with meetings being held in the nearby canteen of Messrs M Nairn & Co. The church was re-dedicated on 14th October, 1956. In 1993 the congregation joined the Association of Congregational Churches in Scotland, and in 1994 became the Scottish Area of the Congregational Federation.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.