St Serf's Episcopal Church, Cromwell Road, Burntisland

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1977 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Burntisland NGR NT 23615 86301 Coordinates 323615, 686301 — Sketch plans by F L Pearson, London with details by W R Simpson, Burntisland. 1904-5. Simple Gothic rectangular plan aisless church with apsidal chancel and dominant belfry at gabled W end, angle buttresses. Rusticated ashlar with droved quoins and dressings; raked plinth, continuous moulded string course encompassing downpipes, eaves course, hoodmoulds and stone mullions. Lancet windows. W ELEVATION: memorial stone at centre below string course, 2 tall lancet windows with hoodmoulds above extending into gablehead, flanking battered buttresses with saw-tooth coping to windowhead height; belfry at gablehead with blind base and moulded string course below 2 depressed-arch openings with gablet coping to each face and centre cast-iron weathervane with cockerel finial. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: moulded pointed-arch doorway in gabled stone-roofed, stone porch to outer right with small flanking cluster columns and circular capitals below continuous hoodmould; tiled step leading to deep-set boarded 2-leaf timber door with large cast-iron hinges. 3 bipartite windows over continuous string course to left of door, 2-stage angle buttress beyond dividing nave and chancel with saw-tooth coping below gablet breaking eaves and saw-tooth coped skew to Celtic cross at roof ridge, 5 windows above continuous string course and slightly raised wallhead to chancel at outer left. S ELEVATION: 4 pointed-arch bipartite windows over continuous string course to centre and to left of centre; flat-roofed extension beyond to right set in return, 5 steps leading to boarded door with decorative cast-iron hinges and hoodmould below pointed-arch continuous string c

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.