Gateway And Churchyard, Kinglassie Kirk, Church Lane, Kinglassie is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. Church gateway.
Gateway And Churchyard, Kinglassie Kirk, Church Lane, Kinglassie
- WRENN ID
- idle-buttress-dawn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1979
- Type
- Church gateway
- OS grid reference
- NT 227 985
- Coordinates
- 56.17308, -3.24531
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gateway and churchyard at Kinglassie Kirk date from the late 17th to early 18th century. The segmental-arched gateway, which has lost its inner arch, is accompanied by a semi-derelict lean-to offertory house to the north. The structure is built of random rubble with ashlar quoin strips, a keystone, voussoirs, skews, moulded skewputts, and a block finial. The offertory house features a door on the south side and a small window on the west side.
The graveyard contains 18th and 19th century moulded and inscribed headstones. Notable examples include a 1743 memorial to Michael Stone, a tenant at Goot Milk, which features a winged angel and fluted columns supporting a dentilled ogee cornice. The reverse has similar mouldings with the initials AN MD, along with an hourglass, skull, and crossed bones. Another significant stone from 1817 includes an anchor and flanking cannons, erected by Andrew Young RN in memory of his wife.
The site is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls, which include a timber door set within an architraved pedestrian gate to the west.
Local climate
Gateway And Churchyard, Kinglassie Kirk, Church Lane, Kinglassie 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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