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File:Old Free Church.jpg|The house in 2020
File:Old Free Church.jpg|The house in 2020
File:Town Hall and U.F.Church.png|The church in the early 20th century at the end of the High Street (Town Hall on right)
File:Town Hall and U.F.Church.png|The church in the early 20th century at the end of the High Street (Town Hall on right)
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Revision as of 17:25, 10 January 2021

Building details
Name Old Free Church
Address Pleasance (or New Road), Falkland
Postcode KY15 7AN
Other names United Free Church;
Parish Church Hall
Date 1844
OS grid ref NO254074
Latitude & longitude 56°15'13"N 3°12'15"W
Listing Category B
Listing reference LB31293
Listing name Parish Church Hall, New Road

Old Free Church is a former place of worship (United Free Church) in Pleasance / New Road, Falkland, now converted to a private house.

Listing description

Dated 1844, originally Free Church. Plain gothic rectangle coursed rubble, 2-window gable front with Y-tracery and bellcote, small single-storey south verstry & c. wing.

Previous uses

Place of worship (United Free Church), later a community hall from (?) 1975 to early 2000s.[1]

Extensions

Renovated early 2000s ?[1]

Further references

Prominently sited simple Gothic box built in 1844–5. Small spired bellcote with gableted openings.[2]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Information from occupier.
  2. Gifford, Fife page 218.

Gallery

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