St Serf's Kirk, Graveyard is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Graveyard.
St Serf's Kirk, Graveyard
- WRENN ID
- lunar-jamb-saffron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1972
- Type
- Graveyard
- OS grid reference
- NT 230 863
- Coordinates
- 56.06388, -3.23753
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Serf's Kirk graveyard features mostly 19th century headstones, with the earliest dated 1794, marked with the initials 'RD IB', and another from 1804 initialled 'AM JW'. There is also a headstone from 1813 for 'Robert Leslie, tenant in Watson'. The graveyard includes obelisk-style headstones on plinths, adorned with various floral decorations.
In the northwest corner lies the burial ground of the Young family, enclosed by arrowhead cast-iron railings set into a coped ashlar wall. A monumental square pillar, likely missing its finial, commemorates 'Helen Simson, wife to William Young of Grange, died 1821, and to William Young her husband, died 1831'. There is also a square column with a broken urn finial dedicated to John Young of Grange, another John Young of Dunearn, and Joseph Young of Dunearn, who all died in 1864. Additional obelisk stones honor John Young of Grange and Robert Young of Colinswell.
The graveyard is surrounded by flat-coped rubble boundary walls, which feature square gatepiers and cast-iron gates.
Local climate
St Serf's Kirk, Graveyard receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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