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Methil, Wellesley Road, Methil Parish Church

Church (20th Century)

Site Name Methil, Wellesley Road, Methil Parish Church

Classification Church (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Church Of Scotland

Canmore ID 93697

Site Number NT39NE 50

NGR NT 36979 99500

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/93697

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Wemyss
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Kirkcaldy
  • Former County Fife

Architecture Notes

Architect:- Reginald Fairlie (1883-1952), 1924

NMRS Photographs.

W Schomberg Scott Manuscripts MS/908 Acc no 1997/39

3 photographs - 1 exterior, and 2 interior.

NMRS Plans

I G Lindsay Collection, W/455

Activities

Project (March 2007 - March 2008)

The gazetteer of places of worship in Scotland is now being developed as a web site, being trialled at present as a pilot project in Fife. Funding was secured for this one-year project, which will run till the end of March 2008 and is managed for SCHR by Sarah Kettles, assisted by two field officers, Amanda Gow and Stuart Mee, and a number of volunteers. More than 450 sites in Fife have been visited, photographed and input to the web database so far. Each photographic record includes views of the immediate environment of each building, while the data entries describe the building, features, events and people associated with it, including details of the interior when possible. It is estimated that the total could be over 700 by the end of the project, including a considerable number of sites not recorded on the earlier gazetteer of places of worship.

Below are highlights from two sample sites, which show the kind of records that are being recorded for all sites. Full details of this project and the recorded sites may be accessed via www.scottishchurchheritage.org.uk.

Photographic Survey

NT 3699 9950 This cruciform Romanesque church was constructed in 1924-5 by Reginald Fairlie on a site gifted by the Wemyss Family. This church superseded the original parish church which was situated between High Street and Station Road (site NO 10471). It is mainly constructed from roughly coursed snecked squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. It is located in a large grassy precinct, separated from the road on its

northern side by a low coped wall composed of large sandstone blocks. This wall is pierced in two places by iron gates. There is a church hall in the precinct to the W of the church with a tarmac path leading up to the entrance.

Western Elevation (Principal) At ground floor level in the nave there is a tripartite arcade; in the outer two arches are two wooden doors and there is a round arched window in the centre. The area in the central arch is constructed from ashlar masonry and there is chequerwork detail above the doors in the outer two arches. In the upper part of the elevation there are three round arch windows flanked by columns and with ashlar surrounds. There is an arrow slit in the gablehead. On the southern side of the nave is the porch. This has a single round arched window in the upper western face of the porch and there is also a small rectangular opening at the base, which may be a later insertion.

On the northern side of the nave there is a tower (see Tower section).

Northern Elevation At the eastern end of the face is the chancel, which has two tripartite windows at clerestory level. To the west of this, the northern transept extends from the face of the church building. The transept has three stained glass round arched windows in the northern face and an arrow slit in the gable head. This face is flanked by buttresses. On the return to the W and E there are tripartite windows at clerestory level. On the eastern face there is also a door set in a round arched frame which is set in a small slightly advanced porch. To the W of the transept is the nave. This has two tripartite windows set above a slightly advanced lower stage with a slate roof. In the lower stage there is a five light cloistered window and a wooden door. The tower is situated to the W of this and beyond this on the face of the church is a single round-headed opening at ground floor level and further smaller round-headed openings at clerestory level.

Eastern Elevation The base of this elevation is constructed from coursed sandstone blocks while the rest of it is constructed from roughly coursed squared rubble. There are two full height buttresses set back from the centre of the face with a carved panel at the top of each. The northern panel has the date 1925 carved on it. In the gable head there is a blind five light arcaded opening.

Southern Elevation The chancel and transept mirror the northern elevation. In the nave there are four round arched windows with ashlar surrounds. The eastern two of these have stained glass while the western two have plain square quarries. At the western end of the face is the porch, which has a single round arched window below the pyramid slate roof and there is also a small rectangular opening at the base. A chimney runs

down the face where the porch and the nave join and projects above the height of the roof.

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