Normand Road United Free Church, Normand Road, Dysart

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: largely intact. Horseshoe gallery with decorative plasterwork to moulded balcony, supported on slender cast-iron columns with decorative capitals. Timber pews to ground and gallery. Gothic-style timber pulpit with double stair. Decorative cast-iron balustrades to staircases leading to gallery.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: low coped rubble boundary walls, some with inset decorative cast-iron railings. 2 pairs of pyramidal-coped, stop-chamfered ashlar gatepiers with decorative cast-iron gates, and arch to main entrance (SE).

Place of worship in use as such. Built at a cost of £2,600, with 650 sittings.
List Description updated, 2011. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)

2 August 2018: External inspection finds this building in overall Fair condition but signs of deterioration are evident due to lack of maintenance. There are some broken window lights and there may be pigeons nesting in the tower. The roof is in fair condition but with a number of slipped slates and missing flashings. Grounds are overgrown and untidy and the Normand Road gate is unsecured. The church closed in 2009 and has been vacant since. The property was sold in January 2014. Listed building consent for conversion and internal and external alterations to form residential units was approved December 2015 ref: 15/01914/LBC. Full planning permission for conversion and internal and external alterations to form residential units was conditonally approved December 2015, ref: 15/01913/FULL. Move to At Risk.

20 October 2021: A member of the public advises there has been deterioration at the site notably to the tower's roof. A hole is advised to have opened, through which pigeons are using to enter the structure.

3 May 2024: Fife Council reported the church's spire has been removed due to its deteriorated condition and immediate threat to public safety.

1 July 2024: Listed building consent (24/00954/LBC) is being sought for the installation of a flat roof further to the steeple structure removal.