Churchyard And Kinninmonth Burial Ailse, Auchterderran Parish Church, Woodend Road, Auchterderran is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1996.

Churchyard And Kinninmonth Burial Ailse, Auchterderran Parish Church, Woodend Road, Auchterderran

WRENN ID
grey-vestry-thunder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 October 1996
Address
Churchyard And Kinninmonth Burial Ailse, Auchterderran Parish Church, Woodend Road, Auchterderran, KY5 0NE
OS grid reference
NT 214 960
Coordinates
56.15037, -3.26598
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Fothad's Parish Church, located on Carden Avenue in Auchterderran, features a crypt dated 1676, which may include earlier materials. The crypt is a small, rectangular building with a slated roof and constructed from rubble. It has a moulded doorway on the west side, which is blocked, and includes a dated lintel and a pediment that displays the Kinninmonth coat of arms. On the south side, there is a memorial slab for the Kinninmonth family, featuring a pediment with a skull and crossed bones, and the initials "IKMW" representing John Kinninmonth and Margaret Wemyss in the tympanum. A blinded window is present on the north side.

The graveyard surrounding the church contains gravestones from the 18th century and later. The earlier gravestones are mainly of a simple block pedimented style with inscriptions, including a memorial for Thomas Birnel from 1727, which features gardening tools and the initials TM and RG alongside weavers' tools on the reverse. The 19th-century memorials are predominantly classical in style, featuring urns, pilasters, and obelisks. Various carvings can be found throughout the graveyard, including sand-glasses, crowns, bells, spades, children's heads with wings, goblets, skulls, suns, and stars. Additionally, moulded balusters and a carved panel set into the random rubble next to the west elevation of the crypt commemorate John Pindar, a poet.

Local climate

Churchyard And Kinninmonth Burial Ailse, Auchterderran Parish Church, Woodend Road, Auchterderran receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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 0.3°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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