Lodge, Vicarsfield Cemetery is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 August 1994. Cemetery lodge.
Lodge, Vicarsfield Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- tenth-fireplace-evening
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1994
- Type
- Cemetery lodge
- OS grid reference
- NO 437 257
- Coordinates
- 56.42101, -2.91318
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The lodge at Vicarsfield Cemetery, designed by T M Cappon in 1895, is a single-storey building with a near square plan. It is constructed from rubble with heavy pointing and features contrasting ashlar sandstone dressings. The windows have chamfered arrises and a cill course, with ashlar mullions. A panelled door is located in a re-entrant angle formed by a cut-away corner, leading to a bay that has a separate pyramidal roof topped with a finial. There is a narrow window at right angles in a timber porch recess, and bipartite and tripartite windows on the right return, along with a tripartite window on the left return, which has an advanced, harled later addition. The rear features two widely spaced bipartite windows, although all windows are currently blocked as of 1994. The lodge has a slate roof with clay ridge tiles and a central stone stack.
Surrounding the lodge are boundary walls, gates, gatepiers, and railings in the Scottish Renaissance style. There are four channelled ashlar gatepiers at the entrance, with flanking pedestrian gates. The taller central piers feature base courses, nook shafts, and architraves, along with pal stones on either side. The outer piers have base courses and a cavetto cornice, all topped with ornate capitals that support consoled, corniced shelves bearing ball finials. The entrance has decorative wrought-iron gates that are two-leaf for the drive. Low quadrant walls flank the entrance, also featuring wrought-iron railings. The boundary walls are made of ashlar coped rubble and are regularly interrupted by decorative railings.
Local climate
Lodge, Vicarsfield Cemetery receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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