Churchyard With Session And Watch House, Old Parish Church, The Causeway, Kennoway

The site comprises an 17th-century cemetery, a single-storey watch house and session room built in 1835 by Robert Hutchison, and associated boundary walls, gatepiers, and gates. The cemetery is located near Kennoway, Fife, adjacent to the former site of St Kenneth’s Parish Church, which was demolished in 1849 and rebuilt in Cupar Road. Local tradition attributes St Kenneth with introducing Christianity to Fife, and the churchyard is believed to be the location of his early cell.

The watch house is constructed of rubble with droved quoins. It has a bowed end with a boarded timber door facing north and a blank gabled bay to the south. Two boarded windows are present on the east elevation, adjoining a boundary wall. A full-height stack, breaking the eaves, is located centrally on the west side.

The 17th-century cemetery contains a variety of memorials, including one to John Fleeming and his wife, Margaret Bouge, who died in 1772. A corniced ashlar and snecked rubble burial enclosure with hooped ironwork is located to the west, with memorials to the Lundins of Auchtermairnie, including Richard Lundin (1791-1832), and to Euphemia, Elizabeth and Emilia Rachel. A harled gable of a nearby listed building (Fernbank) incorporates three inset stones, one projecting forward with a pilastered and pedimented design, featuring a cartouche in the tympanum and a heavily carved fruit motif flanking a monogram at the apex. An eroded tablestone, featuring a skull and crossed bones on moulded legs, is also present.

The high rubble boundary walls are punctuated by flat-coped, square-section, droved ashlar gatepiers and decorative cast-iron gates. Heritor’s records, Gifford's “Fife” (1992), and Findlay’s “Kennoway: Its History and Legends” (1946) provide further details.