Burntisland Cemetery With Lodge And Hearse House, Kinghorn Road, Burntisland

Later 19th century.

LODGE: single storey with attic, plain gabled lodge. Squared and snecked rubble with long and short work quoins and raised, tabbed margins, base course, stop-chamfered arrises and stone mullions.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, 2 recessed to right with door and plate glass fanlight to left and window to right, projecting gable to left with canted corniced window and window above in gablehead.

N ELEVATION: blocked window to right with 2 windows to left, lower pitch-roofed extension with window to outer left.

E ELEVATION: projecting gable to right with lower pitch-roofed projection with gabled opening blocked as door and window, window in gablehead; further low lean-to extension to left with door and small window to right.

3-pane horizontal glazing pattern in sash and case windows with smaller top-sash. Grey slates. Cavetto coped ashlar stacks with cans, overhanging eaves, plain bargeboards and timber kingpost.

HEARSE HOUSE: single storey, gabled rectangular-plan hearse house on falling ground to S. Squared and snecked rubble with droved quoins. Hearse entrance to S segmental-arched with partly-glazed 2-leaf timber doors, louvred oculus in gablehead and ball finial above. Centre window to W. Graded grey slates, coped ashlar stack with polygonal can and ashlar coped skews.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: coped squared and snecked rubble boundary walls, pyramidal-capped square gatepiers and cast-iron railings.

GRAVESTONES: earliest gravestones dated 1880s. Mixed styles; some examples of rustic border with dove of peace, Celtic cross and granite obelisk with floral design as found in graveyard at St Serf's Old Kirk, Kirkton. Family monuments of James Taylor, Starley Hall; William James Balfour Kirke of Greenmount and Suriname.