United Free Church, Normand Road, Dysart

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 26/03/1998 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Burgh Kirkcaldy NGR NT 30296 93424 Coordinates 330296, 693424 — James Brown, 1867; hall 1936. Rectangular-plan, plain Gothic style church with 2-stage tower and broach spire; 5-bay nave with buttresses and gabled church hall to W. Narrow blocks of stugged and squared rubble with ashlar quoins and coursed rubble to W. Narrow pointed-arch openings; 2-stage saw-tooth coped angle buttresses; raised centre E window; hoodmoulds to tower. E (NORMAND ROAD) ELEVATION: gable to right of centre with steps up to deeply-chamfered doorway with 2-leaf panelled timber door and similar fanlight, and hoodmould extending to band course; raised centre tripartite window and glazed quatrefoil in gablehead with broken Celtic cross finial; further door and window to outer right. Tower (see below) to left. SE TOWER: 1st stage: E elevation with door below hoodmoulded window, S elevation also with hoodmoulded window and both elevations with dividing course incorporating glazed multi-foil opening. Louvered tripartite openings high up to each face of 2nd stage, and broach spire with ball-and-spike finial. S (STATION ROAD) ELEVATION: 3 windows to centre with flanking buttresses and further windows to outer bays with buttress to left, tower adjoining to outer right. Lower gable of hall slightly set- back to outer left with window and narrow opening in cross-finialled gablehead. W ELEVATION: broad gable behind roof of hall with blocked roundel, flanking lancets and vesica in gablehead with stack. N ELEVATION: mirrors S elevation but with further window to left, all boarded, and basement entrance with low railings to outer left. Multi-pane leaded glazing. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts; stone finials. INTERIOR: lar

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.