Inverkeithny Parish Church

Inverkeithny Parish Church, designed by A and W Reid of Elgin, was built in 1881. This rectangular, four-bay church is constructed in the Gothic style and is located on the site of an earlier building, oriented east-west, with a session house and vestry attached to the north. The church features squared and coursed, stugged whinstone, with coursed and pinned rubble on the north and west sides, contrasting with pale pink granite ashlar dressings. The windows are pointed-arch bipartite types, with ashlar hood-moulds that have rosette label stops, a base course, and set-off buttresses at the corners.

On the east elevation, the entrance and belfry are located at the gable. The ground level is made of darker whinstone beneath a stepped string course. The pointed-arch doorway has nook-shafts and a roll-moulded surround, topped with a hood-mould featuring masque label stops. There are steps leading to a deep-set, two-leaf boarded door adorned with large scroll and leaf pattern cast-iron hinges, flanked by two small windows. Above, there is a bipartite window and a round panel with a trefoil motif at the gablehead. The ashlar gabled belfry arches over a date plaque and features a bell with a cruciform finial.

The south elevation includes three tall bipartite windows, with a smaller bipartite window on the outer right and a round quatrefoil window above that lights the stair. The west elevation has two tall single light windows and a rose window between them at the gablehead, topped with a cruciform finial. The session house adjoining to the north features a bipartite window at ground level and an arrow-slit opening above it at the gablehead. There is a re-used belfry dated 1638, which includes a pediment and sculptured finials.

The north elevation mirrors the south, with the session house and vestry adjoining to the northwest. It has a door in the re-entrant angle with a stop-chamfered surround, a gable to the east with a window at ground level, and an arrow-slit to the attic. The windows have small leaded panes, some with stained border glazing. The roof is covered with blue-grey slates, and the ashlar coped skews feature bracketed gablet skewputts.

Inside, the church has a simple design with grained woodwork. There is a blind arcaded timber gallery at the east end supported by cast-iron columns, and the coomb ceiling features a trefoil motif on the collar braces.

The graveyard is enclosed by coped rubble retaining walls, with a re-used urn finial marking the gatepier to the west. It contains fine 17th and 18th century table-top gravestones.