Dalgleish Mausoleum, West Church, Culross is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 August 2002. Mausoleum.
Dalgleish Mausoleum, West Church, Culross
- WRENN ID
- ghost-postern-rook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 August 2002
- Type
- Mausoleum
- OS grid reference
- NS 979 864
- Coordinates
- 56.06023, -3.64081
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dalgleish Mausoleum, located at West Church in Culross, was built in the late 1870s to early 1880s. It is a roofless mausoleum with a rectangular plan, set on a raised platform. The structure features three semi-circular headed arches on the north, east, and south elevations, each with roll-moulded surrounds and chamfered bases for the piers and quoins. The west elevation is plain, with a column shaft at each quoin. The mausoleum has a corniced wallhead and sloping shoulders, constructed from ashlar blocks. Inside, there are wall monuments dedicated to the Dalgleish family, and decorative ironwork is present on the gates set within the arches.
Surrounding the mausoleum is a sandstone rubble boundary wall with curved coping stones. To the southeast, there are tall wrought-iron gates that feature a pattern similar to the ironwork in the mausoleum. The gates are flanked by square-plan ashlar gatepiers topped with conical coping stones.
Local climate
Dalgleish Mausoleum, West Church, Culross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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