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Wemyss, Chapel Garden, Burial Enclosure
Burial Enclosure (16th Century), Burial Ground (Post Medieval), Chapel (Post Medieval)(Possible), Sundial (17th Century)
Site Name Wemyss, Chapel Garden, Burial Enclosure
Classification Burial Enclosure (16th Century), Burial Ground (Post Medieval), Chapel (Post Medieval)(Possible), Sundial (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Wemyss Castle Policies; Wemyss Estate
Canmore ID 53985
Site Number NT39SW 14
NGR NT 31900 94662
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/53985
- Council Fife
- Parish Wemyss
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NT39SW 14 31900 94662
NT39SW 1 31925 94660 Ruin
NT39SW 8 31892 94624 Chapel Gardens House
NT39SW 184 31986 94685 Sea Wall and Towers
Historic Scotland - delisted 20.3.2000.
No traces remain of a chapel in Chapel Garden, but on the E side of a burial-enclosure there is a small pointed archway which has the appearance of having been formed from older masonry. Above the archway is a pediment inscribed E D W 1776, representing David, Lord Elcho, sixth Earl of Wemyss. The burial enclosure is modern, but the front wall contains details of antiquarian interest placed there for preservation. On the SW pier is a 17th-century sundial of lectern type. On each side of the entrance is a sculptured panel, evidently parts of a retable.
J S Richardson 1928; RCAHMS 1933.
This burial-ground is void of grave-stones, and no traces of any ecclesiastical building could be seen.
Visited by OS 6 October 1954.
According to Somerville, (MS 5741/4/22) a lectern sundial was removed for safety from a 'balustrade above the shore' to a wall in the garden of Chapel Gardens House (NT39SW 8). (Anne Cassells, 6 August 2009).
Publication Account (1933)
Carved Stones, Chapel Gardens, Wemyss Castle.
Of a chapel in the gardens, no trace remains, but on the eastern side of a burial-enclosure there is a small pointed arch-way which has the appearance of having been formed from older masonry. Above the archway is a pediment inscribed E.D.W. 1776, representing David, Lord Elcho, sixth Earl of Wemyss. The burial-enclosure is modern, but the front wall contains certain details of antiquarian interest placed there for preservation. On the south-west pier is a 17th-century sundial of lectern type. On each side of the entrance is a sculptured panel, evidently parts of are table. The eastern one, measuring 3 feet 4 ½ inches by 2 feet 7 ½ inches, represents The Circumcision, and the western one, measuring 3 feet 4 ½ inches by 2 feet 8 inches, The Flight into Egypt. These panels are fully described in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., lxii (1927-8), pp. 217-18.
RCAHMS 1933
