Raith Church, 111 Links Road, Kirkcaldy

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 27/02/1997 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Kirkcaldy NGR NT 27891 90754 Coordinates 327891, 690754 — 1875 incorporating 1843 fabric. Gabled and aisled church on ground falling to S; with 4-bay nave and 6-bay gallery, narthex, traceried rose window and 3-stage pinnacled buttresses with polygonal 2nd stage and round 3rd stage with frieze. Base and eaves coursed. Rock faced ashlar and sandstone rubble with polished long and short quoins. Pointed-arch openings, plate tracery, hoodmoulds with label-stops; chamfered reveals and stone mullions. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: all openings pointed-arch. Dominant centre gable with double steps up to stiff-leaf finialled porch with floreate capitalled nook-shafts and battered buttresses flanking 2-leaf boarded timber door and boarded fanlight retaining tracery (modern canopy projecting from centre); small bipartite windows in flanking bays and broad 5-light window (outer lights plate-traceried) in gablehead; the whole flanked by 3-stage buttresses and smaller flanking gables with 2-light traceried windows and clasping buttresses to outer angles. N ELEVATION: triple-gabled with high ground level. Blinded lancets (with base at ground) flanking centre bay with large traceried rose window in gablehead. W ELEVATION: 6-bay, all openings square-headed. Variety of elements including 6 bipartite gallery windows, stack between outer right bays and 3 small louvered roof vents. E ELEVATION: as W elevation but with steps up to door at beyond blocked outer right window. Some small-pane leaded glazing retained. Coped ashlar stacks, ashlar- coped skews and moulded skewputts. Decorative terracotta ridge tiles. INTERIOR: raked, horseshoe gallery on cast-iron columns and arcaded gallery windows to nave. BOUNDARY WA

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.