Description

Earliest headstones belong to 17th century (illegible, see Notes), with good 18th and 19th century memorials. Situated to N, S and W of church. Predominance of obelisks to SE corner, other memorials include:

S wall - dwarf wall enclosures to mural monuments with pilastered tablets and heraldic pediments commemorating Robert Whyt 1796 and James Townsend Oswald of Dunnikier 1816. Also, stone with shaped pediment to Robert Whytt of Pourane 1667 and his wife Janet Tennant 1670. Cast-iron plaques dated 1823 recording ownership of lairs.

To the E - shaped stone with masons symbols to Anne Alison died 1819 and George Oliphant died 1845; reverse with skull, bones and hour glass to Robert Oliphant, died 1771.

N wall - polished ashlar monument with urn finial and flanking pinnacles to Robert Philp 1828. Monumental edifice to Patrick Swan 1889 with elaborately carved sarcophagus under pedimented keystoned arch, Greek key frieze and seal of Kirkcaldy on tympanum. Pedimented monument to Alexander Malcolm, Shipowner. Ogee monument with gothic detail and floreate capitals to John Anderson, Linen Manufacturer, died 1866.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATES AND STEPS: random rubble boundary walls with saddleback and semicircular coping. Gatepiers to NW (Kirk Wynd) stop-chamfered rusticated ashlar with chamfered plinths and cavetto cornices giving way to raised bases of former finials (possibly cast-iron lamps) and decorative cast-iron gates. Gatepiers to E of ashlar with pyramidal coping. Flight of stone steps to SW with ashlar arch dated '1732' and initialled 'MAA' to left and 'MDM' to right, leading from Kirk Wynd to churchyard.

Statement of Interest

In 1704 Robert Monteath wrote the "Theater of Mortality" in which he translated to rhyming English a number of 17th century Latin verses from headstones since lost or re-used.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805728

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014