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

Burntisland Cemetery, located on Kinghorn Road in Burntisland, features a lodge and hearse house built in the later 19th century.

The lodge is a single-storey structure with an attic, characterized by its plain gabled design. It is constructed from squared and snecked rubble, featuring long and short work quoins, raised tabbed margins, a base course, stop-chamfered arrises, and stone mullions. The west elevation has three bays, with two recessed to the right. There is a door with a plate glass fanlight to the left and a window to the right. A projecting gable on the left includes a canted corniced window and another window above in the gablehead. The north elevation has a blocked window to the right and two windows to the left, along with a lower pitch-roofed extension that has a window on the outer left. The east elevation features a projecting gable to the right with a lower pitch-roofed projection that has a blocked gabled opening, a window in the gablehead, and a further low lean-to extension to the left with a door and a small window to the right. The sash and case windows have a 3-pane horizontal glazing pattern with a smaller top-sash. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has cavetto coped ashlar stacks with cans, overhanging eaves, plain bargeboards, and a timber kingpost.

The hearse house is a single-storey, gabled rectangular-plan structure situated on falling ground to the south. It is also made of squared and snecked rubble with droved quoins. The hearse entrance on the south side features a segmental arch with partly-glazed two-leaf timber doors, a louvred oculus in the gablehead, and a ball finial above. There is a central window on the west side. The roof is similarly covered with graded grey slates, and it has a coped ashlar stack with a polygonal can and ashlar coped skews.

The cemetery is enclosed by coped squared and snecked rubble boundary walls, which include pyramidal-capped square gatepiers and cast-iron railings. The gravestones within the cemetery date back to the 1880s and exhibit a variety of styles, including rustic borders with doves of peace, Celtic crosses, and granite obelisks with floral designs, similar to those found in the graveyard at St Serf's Old Kirk, Kirkton. Notable family monuments include those of James Taylor from Starley Hall and William James Balfour Kirke of Greenmount and Suriname.