Churchyard, Crail Parish Church, Marketgate, Crail is a Grade A listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 May 1972. Churchyard, memorial.

Churchyard, Crail Parish Church, Marketgate, Crail

WRENN ID
north-buttress-sienna
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 May 1972
Type
Churchyard, memorial
Address
Churchyard, Crail Parish Church, Marketgate, Crail, KY10 3TQ
OS grid reference
NO 613 079
Coordinates
56.26278, -2.62528
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The churchyard of Crail Parish Church features rubble-built enclosing walls that include impressive mural monuments from the 16th century and later. Notable monuments include the gable front of James Lumsden of Airdrie, who died in 1598, which is adorned with colonnettes and broached spires. There is also a niche with an effigy for William Bruce of Symbister, who died in 1630, flanked by sculptured plasters. Other significant monuments include the baroque memorials for George Moncrieff of Sauchope, who died in 1707, and Wood of Sauchope, who died in 1723, along with the enclosure for Lindesay of Wormistone. Additionally, there is a war memorial on the site. The gates were added in 1921.

Local climate

Churchyard, Crail Parish Church, Marketgate, Crail receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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