Methil (Wellesley) Parish Church

Methil (Wellesley) Parish Church

In the early 1920s the steady growth of the population of the town led the Church of Scotland to construct a new parish church in Methil to replace the West Church (1838). Land on Wellesley Road was gifted by the Wemyss family and the commission was given to Reginald Fairlie, who was also responsible for St Agatha’s Roman Catholic Church completed in 1923. Fairlie was influenced by medieval church architecture, and reputedly used the plans of the medieval parish church of Methilhill (excavated in the early 1920s) in his designs for both St Agatha’s and Methil Parish Church on Wellesley Road, although this influence is perhaps more obvious in the latter. The design includes nave, transepts and a choir separated from the body of the church by an organ screen and a cloister and chapter house. In 2012 there was a union between the church and that of Innerleven East, and since the merger it is now known as Wellesley Parish Church of Scotland.

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1. ‘Wellesley Road, Methil Parish Church’, Historic Environment Scotland, Accessed 9 October, 2021, http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB22712. 2. John Gifford, The Buildings of Scotland, Fife, (London, 1988), 3. Mary Cameron, Methil History and Trail (East Wemyss, 1986),

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