Culross, West Church, Dalgleish Mausoleum
Mausoleum (19th Century)
Site Name Culross, West Church, Dalgleish Mausoleum
Classification Mausoleum (19th Century)
Canmore ID 222310
Site Number NS98NE 2.01
NGR NS 97926 86480
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Culross
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NS98NE 2.00 West Church
Roofless, rectangular-plan mausoleum. Raised platform; 3 semi-circular headed arches to N, E and S elevations; roll-moulded surrounds; chamfered bases to piers and quoins. Plain elevation to W. Column shaft to each quoin. Corniced wallhead; sloping shoulders. Ashlar block. Wall monuments inside in memory of the Dalgleish family. Decorative ironwork to gates set within arches. BOUNDARY WALL AND GATES Sandstone rubble wall; curved coping stones surrounds mausoleum. Tall wrought-iron gates to SE (pattern recurs from ironwork in mausoleum); square-plan ashlar gatepiers; conical coping stones.
A decorative yet simple mausoleum built for the Dalgleish family from West Grange (NW of Culross) (Historic Scotland)
