Old Parish Church And Burial Ground, Monimail is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984. Church ruins, cemetery walls. 1 related planning application.

Old Parish Church And Burial Ground, Monimail

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
Type
Church ruins, cemetery walls
Address
Old Parish Church And Burial Ground, Monimail, KY15 7RJ
OS grid reference
NO 298 141
Coordinates
56.31463, -3.13578
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Parish Church and Burial Ground in Monimail features the fragmentary remains of a pre-Reformation church, with a restored north aisle and several notable monuments from the 17th to 19th centuries, all surrounded by cemetery walls. The old church has been disused since 1796 and is largely demolished, with only the partially rebuilt eastern end remaining at a reduced level. The structure is built of rubble with ashlar dressings and has flat stone coping.

On the north wall, there is a round-arched, roll-moulded tomb recess next to an ogival-headed aumbry. The north aisle, constructed after 1690 and repaired in 1831, is now used as a mausoleum. It features polished ashlar with each stone marked by an incised cross and roll-moulded architraves. The west wall has an enlarged door flanked by blocked windows, while the east wall has a blind double window and a crest in the gable. The building has a moulded eaves cornice, skews, and a slate roof.

The Cunnoquhie enclosure on the south wall contains an arcaded and pedimented 18th-century mausoleum. To the east of the north aisle is a large Gothic monument signed by "Anderson and Chisolm, sculptors, Perth." The cemetery walls are rubble-built, and the corniced, square stugged ashlar gatepiers have war memorial plaques set in panels.

Local climate

Old Parish Church And Burial Ground, Monimail receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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