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Kingswoodend, Kinghorn Road, Alexander Iii Monument

Commemorative Monument (19th Century)

Site Name Kingswoodend, Kinghorn Road, Alexander Iii Monument

Classification Commemorative Monument (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) King Alexander's Memorial

Canmore ID 52733

Site Number NT28NE 12

NGR NT 25388 86368

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Kinghorn
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Kirkcaldy
  • Former County Fife

Archaeology Notes

NT28NE 12 25388 86368.

(NT 2539 8637) Monument (NR)

OS 6" map, (1938)

This monument, on the Burntisland-Kinghorn road, bears the following inscription:- To the illustrious Alexander III, the last of Scotland's Celtic Kings, who was accidentally killed near this spot, March XIX -MCCLXXXVI. Erected on the Sexcentenary of his death.

Name Book 1943.

This monument is not an antiquity.

Visited by OS (W D J) 2 March 1959.

Architecture Notes

ARCHITECT: Hippolyte J. Blanc 1888

Activities

Online Gallery (1306 - 1329)

The year 2014 sees the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, in which the army of Robert I of Scotland defeated that of Edward II of England. The battle marked a major turning point in the long, drawn-out struggle of the Wars of Independence.

The Wars have had a lasting influence upon all the nations of the United Kingdom and upon the national story. Each age has seen fit to commemorate the events in its own way: through the perpetuation of the genuine historical associations of buildings and places and also through the endowment of others with improbable or fanciful traditions. Where past generations allowed its historic buildings to decay and disappear, later generations began to value and actively preserve these for their associations. Where an event lacked a tangible reminder, as at Kinghorn where Alexander III was killed in a riding accident, a commemorative monument would be erected to act as a focus. The Wars of Independence predate the fashion for accurate portraiture: the weathered, generic military effigy of Sir James Douglas is one of the few to survive in Scotland. Later centuries saw a need and supplied it by a crowd of images of its historic heroes, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, each depicted according to contemporary taste and imagination. The opening of the new heritage centre at Bannockburn takes this into a new dimension, through the use of three-dimensional, digital technology.

RCAHMS Collections hold many images of these buildings and locations from battlefields, castles and churches, to the many commemorative monuments erected in later years. This gallery highlights a selection of these, including antiquarian sketches, photographic and drawn surveys, and architectural designs.

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