St Michael And All Angels Episcopal Church, Rotten Row

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 04/09/2012 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Elie And Earlsferry NGR NO 48434 00047 Coordinates 348434, 700047 — Speirs and Company, 1905 (relocated 1923). Single storey, rectangular-plan, corrugated-iron church with timber frame and pitched roof. Pointed-arch windows. Gabled vestibule projecting to S with window to S; timber boarded door to W; lean-to WC addition to E. Octagonal window above vestibule with timber cross at gable apex. Lean-to vestry outshot to NE corner. Triangular window to N (Sanctuary) gable with amber-coloured glass. Corrugated-iron and timber gables painted green; white painted fenestration. Timber-framed, 6-pane astragalled timber windows; cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: good interior scheme lined throughout with boarded pine; kingpost roof structure with text on beam above sanctuary: 'In this place will I give peace'. Many elements surviving fire of 1953N (see Notes) including: carved oak altar with amber-coloured glass window above; timber canopy (1938); pulpit on raised platform to E; decorative stone font to S; timber congregational chairs; carved War Memorial and 1934 monument to church's principal founders by Hew Lorimer. Good furnishings. Timber panelled doors. — Place of worship in use as such. St Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church is a good example of a corrugated iron church in the East Neuk area. These buildings more commonly survive in the Highlands and Islands and this Fife example is therefore particularly rare. The church is representative of the early 20th century work of the Speirs and Company iron foundry who were Glasgow's foremost exponents of prefabricated building in Scotland during the period. Iron churches were available in various sizes and patterns and could be ordered from

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.