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Latitude: 56.1589 / 56°9'32"N
Longitude: -3.0638 / 3°3'49"W
OS Eastings: 334025
OS Northings: 696759
OS Grid: NT340967
Mapcode National: GBR 2F.HTYF
Mapcode Global: WH6RP.XG7B
Plus Code: 9C8R5W5P+HF
Entry Name: Wemyss Parish Church And War Memorial, Main Street, East Wemyss
Listing Name: East Wemyss, Main Street and Back Dykes, War Memorial
Listing Date: 17 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393155
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46042
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393155
Location: Wemyss
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages
Parish: Wemyss
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: War memorial Architectural structure
Circa 1920, with additional memorial circa 1945. War memorial in semicircular enclosure, ashlar with square-section piers, set into boundary wall of St Mary's By-The-Sea (former Parish Church) and enclosed by thistle-finialled decorative iron railings. 2-stage pier to centre with deep plinth covered by granite lectern commemorating the fallen of 1939-1945; 1st stage with panel bearing carved roll-call of fallen surmounted by wording 'IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF EAST WEMYSS WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR', and further names on small flanking tablets surmounted by carved scrollwork. Stepped 2nd stage giving way to bronze statue of soldier. Flanking quadrant walls with ironwork '1914' to left and '1918' to right, deep stone balustrade and moulded cornice giving way to step-coped and ball-finialled outer piers.
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