Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

St Serf’s Kirk Graveyard, including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates and excluding Scheduled Monument No 828 ‘Kirkton, Old Parish Church’, Kirkton Road, BurntislandLB22862

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
24/11/1972
Last Date Amended
07/08/2015
Local Authority
Fife
Planning Authority
Fife
Burgh
Burntisland
NGR
NT 23044 86362
Coordinates
323044, 686362

Description

GRAVEYARD: mostly 19th century headstones; earliest dated 1794 with initials 'RD IB' and 1804 initialled 'AM JW', also 1813 to 'Robert Leslie, tenant in Watson'; some obelisk on plinth style with variety of floral decoration.

Burial ground of Young family to northwest corner, arrowhead cast-iron railings set into coped ashlar wall: monumental cavetto-coped square pillar (probably minus finial) commemorating 'Helen Simson wife to William Young of Grange, died 1821, and to William Young her husband, died 1831'. Square column with broken urn finial (draped urn on ground nearby) to John Young of Grange, another John Young of Dunearn and Joseph Young of Dunearn died 1864. Obelisk stones commemorating John Young of Grange and Robert Young of Colinswell.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: flat-coped rubble boundary walls with square gatepiers and cast-iron gates.

Statement of Special Interest

Kirkton, Old Parish Church is Scheduled Monument No 828 and is excluded from the listing.

Listed building record and statutory address updated in 2015. Previously listed as 'Kirkton Road, St Serf's Kirk, with Graveyard, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates.'

References

Bibliography

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore.html CANMORE ID 52826.

Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1854, published 1856) Fife, Sheet 35. 6 inches to the mile. 1st Edition. London: Ordnance Survey.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

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