War Memorial, Kinghorn Road, Burntisland is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1995. War memorial. 1 related planning application.

War Memorial, Kinghorn Road, Burntisland

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 March 1995
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
NT 234 859
Coordinates
56.06048, -3.2301
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial on Kinghorn Road in Burntisland was built around 1920, with an additional boundary wall memorial added around 1945. It features a Celtic Cross design and is accessed by three steps leading to a low decorative cast-iron railing that surrounds a two-tier plinth. The first stage of the plinth has an inscription, while the second stage includes a sunk panel featuring The Great Michael. The memorial commemorates "To the glory of God and in honoured memory of the men of Burntisland who laid down their lives for their country in the Great Wars." At the top, a Celtic Cross is placed on a raked base adorned with a wreath and a sword with an entwined banner, dated 1914-1919. The names of the fallen soldiers are inscribed on the north, east, and west sides.

The boundary wall includes low coped quadrant walls that step up, topped with moulded coping. A commemorative tablet surmounts a stone wreath on the north side, inscribed with the names of those who died in the Second World War.

Local climate

War Memorial, Kinghorn Road, 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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