Methilhill Cemetery, Holly Bank, Methilhill is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 March 1999. Cemetery.

Methilhill Cemetery, Holly Bank, Methilhill

WRENN ID
weathered-banister-torch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 March 1999
Type
Cemetery
OS grid reference
NO 360 005
Coordinates
56.19316, -3.03279
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Methilhill Cemetery, located to the northwest of the main cemetery, dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features a variety of monuments, including a tabletop gravestone with a moulded cornice supported by three moulded pedestals, inscribed with the name 'Janet Steven spouse of Robert Wood who died 1771'. There is also a low, flat-coped ashlar enclosure for the 'Peter' family, which includes a three-stage obelisk on the northwest wall. An inlaid slab at the second stage commemorates 'John Peter 1808-1814'.

The gravestones in the cemetery are predominantly classical in style, with some older simple moulded apex stones. Notable examples include a headstone from 1798, 'Erected by Thomas Berwick Shipmaster Dubbiesaide'; a stone from 1821, 'Erected by David Martin Kirkland'; and a stone from 1820, 'Erected by William Irvine of Methil Mill in memory of his father James'.

Local climate

Methilhill Cemetery, Holly Bank, Methilhill 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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