Main Gate, Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy

The Main Gate at Beveridge Park in Kirkcaldy, likely designed by William D Sang in 1891, features two sets of four Renaissance style, square section, red sandstone gatepiers. These gatepiers frame a wide carriage entrance and flank pedestrian walkways.

The gatepiers have a deep base course, with the main piers on the principal elevation showcasing fielded panels. The external faces of the inner piers display commemoration plaques that read:

"This Park was provided out of money bequeathed for the purpose to the Provost Magistrates and Town Council of Kirkcaldy by Michael Beveridge Esq of Beechwood who died Provost of Kirkcaldy 4th March 1890," and

"This Park was opened by Mrs Beveridge the widow of the donor along with the Provost Magistrates and Town Council of the Burgh of Kirkcaldy on the 24th September 1892."

At the top of each pier, there are moulded pilasters over anthemion devices at the outer edges, with small carved heads positioned below a string course and a moulded frieze that transitions into a dentilled cavetto cornice. The piers are crowned with scroll-flanked shafts, a moulded cornice, and scrollwork pediments.