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Wemyss Parish Church And War Memorial, Main Street, East Wemyss

A Category C Listed Building in Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages, Fife

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Coordinates

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

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Description

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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