Wemyss Parish Church And War Memorial, Main Street, East Wemyss is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1999. War memorial.

Wemyss Parish Church And War Memorial, Main Street, East Wemyss

WRENN ID
dim-railing-laurel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 March 1999
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
NT 340 967
Coordinates
56.15891, -3.06378
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Wemyss Parish Church and War Memorial, located on Main Street in East Wemyss, was built around 1920, with an additional memorial added around 1945. The war memorial is situated in a semicircular enclosure made of ashlar stone, featuring square-section piers that are integrated into the boundary wall of St Mary's By-The-Sea, the former parish church. It is surrounded by decorative iron railings topped with thistle finials.

At the center, there is a two-stage pier with a deep plinth that supports a granite lectern commemorating those who fell during 1939-1945. The first stage of the pier has a panel with a carved roll-call of the fallen, topped with the inscription 'IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF EAST WEMYSS WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR', along with additional names on smaller flanking tablets that are adorned with carved scrollwork. The second stage is stepped and leads up to a bronze statue of a soldier.

The flanking quadrant walls feature ironwork inscriptions of '1914' on the left and '1918' on the right, with a deep stone balustrade and a moulded cornice that transitions to step-coped outer piers topped with ball finials.

Local climate

Wemyss Parish Church And War Memorial, Main Street, East Wemyss 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 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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