Retaining wall, Old Carnock Burial Ground is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1972.
Retaining wall, Old Carnock Burial Ground
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-oriel-ivory
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar MP: Graeme Downie (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1972
- OS grid reference
- NT 041 891
- Coordinates
- 56.08531, -3.54252
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The memorials within the Carnock Old Burial Ground include grave markers, grave slabs, and burial monuments from the 17th and 18th centuries. A burial enclosure on the east side of the former church features a memorial stone from 1646 dedicated to John Row. This stone has a large pediment above the inscription, adorned with a thistle finial and scroll decoration on the sides. Several grave markers display intricate inscriptions and imagery, including a well-preserved table stone for Andrew Gibson from 1624, which features a coat of arms in high relief.
There is a roofless former watch house, likely built in the 1800s, located to the east of the old church against the west wall of the former manse. This watch house is constructed of sandstone rubble, and the internal west wall contains remnants of a fireplace.
To the north of the old church stands a war memorial in the form of an obelisk, inscribed with a St Andrews Cross. Erected in 1923, it has had names of the fallen from the Second World War and the Iraq War added to it.
The raised burial ground area is enclosed by retaining walls made of plain sandstone rubble.
Local climate
Retaining wall, Old Carnock Burial Ground receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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