Churchyard, St Leonard's Parish Church, Kinghorn is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 March 2000. Graveyard.
Churchyard, St Leonard's Parish Church, Kinghorn
- WRENN ID
- tired-obsidian-candle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 March 2000
- Type
- Graveyard
- OS grid reference
- NT 271 869
- Coordinates
- 56.06972, -3.17113
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The churchyard of St Leonard's Parish Church in Kinghorn features a collection of 16th century and later grave markers. Many of the early relief-carved stones are significantly eroded, including two stones with winged angel heads. One of these is dated '1721' and bears the initials 'DM CO' along with a plough, while the other is likely from a similar period. There is a simpler stone dated '1733' that reads 'RN IC' and 'HERE LYES ... CORPS OF PAT(RI)CK NICOLL'. Additional tablestones are located to the east and north, and a janker stone is found to the southeast. The churchyard also contains two cast-iron grave markers from the Kirkcaldy Foundry, characterized by urn-finialled fluted pilasters and a fan-detail pediment. Eroded mural monuments can be seen on the Old Kirk wall.
The boundary walls consist of coped rubble and include a tall section that has remains of a mort-safe, possibly. The gatepiers, made of coped square-section ashlar and dating from 1839, support ironwork gates. There is also a low boundary wall with inset railings adjacent to the gatepiers.
Local climate
Churchyard, St Leonard's Parish Church, Kinghorn receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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