Churchyard, Auchtertool Parish Church

The churchyard of Auchtertool Parish Church dates from the 17th century and later, featuring rubble walls that enclose the church and graveyard. Within the churchyard, there is a variety of gravestones, including some 17th century table stones with moulded legs. The most notable of these commemorates David Martin, the minister of Auchtertool in 1636, and features a relief carving of a figure dressed in knee-breeches and a gown, with feet resting on a skull. The oldest gravestone, which is severely eroded, is dated 1604 and honors James Burnlie, showing some evidence of his and his wife's crest. Emblems on the moulded apex stones include a spade and shovel flanking a vertical hourglass, with the initials 'IHGA' and the date '1788' on the front. Among the 19th century stones is a small cast obelisk with ropework moulding, erected in 1869 by 'JAS DEWAR', and marked 'Inverkeithing Brickwork'.

The boundary walls consist of low rubble, complemented by ball-finialled, square-section ashlar gatepiers and decorative cast-iron gates. Smaller ball-finialled piers are positioned to flank a hooped iron pedestrian gate to the south.