Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

DYSART, WEST QUALITY STREET, MASONIC HALLLB45516

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
26/03/1998
Local Authority
Fife
Planning Authority
Fife
Burgh
Kirkcaldy
NGR
NT 30242 93086
Coordinates
330242, 693086

Description

Church 1845, Masonic Hall from 1890, converted as such 1899 by D Forbes Smith. Tall single storey, 5-bay, piend-roofed former church on corner site and in irregular terrace to W. Stugged ashlar with polished margins and quoin strips. Base and eaves courses. Architraved, pointed-arch openings.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 tall windows to centre bays; slightly advanced, pedimented outer bays, that to right with moulded doorcase and stepped hoodmould enclosing inscription "MASONIC HALL. PRESENTED BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL OF ROSSLYN 1890", pointed-arch opening above and louvered oculus in finialled pediment; bay to outer left splayed with tall window and oculus with Freemasons compasses in finialled pediment. Pyramid-capped, rectangular louvered ridge vent to centre, and modern rooflight to right.

E ELEVATION: 2 tall windows; recessed dry-dashed screen wall of rear wing to outer left.

S ELEVATION: catslide roof of dry-dashed rear wing abutting eaves line.

All windows blocked. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with cans, ashlar-coped skews and ball and spike finials.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. At the Disruption, the Rev John Thomson moved to this new Free Church, which was opened on 5th January, 1845; the service was led by Rev John Alexander of Kirkcaldy Free Church. The church was used for 29 years, and was subsequently known as the Fitzroy Hall; it was given (in 1890) to the Masonic Order by the 4th Earl of Rosslyn. The Forbes Smith drawings show a timbered gallery.

References

Bibliography

Cunningham DYSART PAST AND PRESENT (1912). Dysart Trust THE DYSART TRAIL. J Swan & C McNeill DYSART A ROYAL BURGH (1997), p84. P K Livingstone ST BRYCEDALE CHURCH KIRKCALDY (1957). Dean of Guild Records Ref 'Dysart 46'.

About Listed Buildings

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We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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