Kirkcaldy, Wemyssfield, Town House
Clock Tower (20th Century), Town House (20th Century)
Site Name Kirkcaldy, Wemyssfield, Town House
Classification Clock Tower (20th Century), Town House (20th Century)
Canmore ID 52950
Site Number NT29SE 54
NGR NT 27807 91386
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52950
- Council Fife
- Parish Kirkcaldy And Dysart
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NT29SE 54.00 27807 91386
NT29SE 54.01 2807 9150 Town House and Gaol
ARCHITECT: David Carr (competition).
REFERENCE:
Kirkcaldy, Wemyssfield, Town House (Competition)
Plans - Dick Peddie and Mackay, Edinburgh
(Drawings in Plan Chest 7)
Photographic Survey (1956)
Photographic survey of building in Kirkcaldy, Fife, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1956.
Publication Account (1997)
The Tradtionalist classicism if this building was, by the end of the 30s, the internationally accepted idiom for design of public buildings anywhere in Europe. Yet individual instances of this monumentalism - just like the international 'vernacular' of c.1900 - were typically justified by rhetoric of a national 'essence'. Here, the test which accompanies Carr's successful competition entry claimed the design was a response to the 'inborn characteristics' of Scots towns. Its construction delayed by the war, the Town House was eventually built in little-altered form. (Fig 4.9).
Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Post-War Vision, 1945-75', (1997).
