Churchyard, Burntisland Parish Church, East Leven Street, Burntisland is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Graveyard, walls.
Churchyard, Burntisland Parish Church, East Leven Street, Burntisland
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-moulding-dawn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1972
- Type
- Graveyard, walls
- OS grid reference
- NT 233 856
- Coordinates
- 56.05776, -3.23229
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Burntisland Parish Church, dating from the late 16th century and later, features high rubble walls that enclose both the church and its graveyard. In the southwest corner, there is a derelict rubble lean-to building.
Inside the church, the east wall displays a Renaissance mural monument dedicated to Captain Andrew Watson and his wife Isobel Watson, as well as John Watson and his wife Euphamie Orrock, complete with a family crest and dated 1689. On the south wall, there is a classical monument with a heavy hoodmould honoring John Young and his family.
The gravestones in the graveyard are mostly of a simple moulded apex style, featuring various inscriptions. Notable commemorations include John Orrock, a shipmaster, whose gravestone depicts a sailing boat, and George Arnot, a local figure who passed away in 1850. His headstone, erected by public subscription, shows him with a wheelbarrow.
Local climate
Churchyard, Burntisland Parish Church, East Leven Street, Burntisland 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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