Kennoway Old Parish Church, Cupar Road, Kennoway

Kennoway Old Parish Church stands on Cupar Road in Kennoway as a Romanesque Revival building designed by Thomas Hamilton in 1850, with Wallace Hall added in 1900. The church remains in active ecclesiastical use.

The main structure comprises a five-bay nave with flat-roofed side aisles, a narrow tower with broach spire to the southwest, and a steeply-pitched rectangular-plan Wallace Hall projecting from the northeast elevation. The walls are constructed of snecked whinstone rubble with contrasting dressed ashlar quoins, some of which have been replaced. A coped squared rubble plinth, dividing course, and mutuled cornice run around the building. Single and two-stage sawtooth-coped buttresses punctuate the elevations.

The southwest principal elevation features a gabled centre bay with steps leading to a concave-moulded doorcase containing a two-leaf boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges. Above this sits a hoodmoulded two-light Venetian-traceried window at second-stage level, with a small stone Celtic cross at the gablehead. The tower, slightly advanced and four stages high, rises immediately to the left. The first stage has a narrow light; a similar window appears above. A black clock face with Roman numerals sits high on the third stage, facing southwest and northwest. The fourth stage houses the belfry with louvered bipartite openings to the southwest and northeast, and single openings to northwest and southeast. A cornice tops the belfry before the spire, which carries a moulded finial and cast-iron weathervane.

The southeast elevation fronting Cupar Road features nave bays at first stage divided by single-stage buttresses, with steps up to a deep-set timber door to the right of centre. Two small windows sit to the left and another window to the outer right, with a deep-set glazed oculus to the outer left. The second stage displays three windows grouped toward the centre. The northwest elevation mirrors this arrangement.

The northeast elevation contains a gabled centre bay with a traceried window at second-stage level and a datestone inscribed '1619' at the gablehead. Wallace Hall projects from this elevation as a steeply-pitched piened rectangular block, with a door in the lower link to the southeast.

Round-headed openings throughout carry deeply chamfered reveals, hoodmoulds, and label stops. Leaded diamond-pattern glazing with coloured margins fills the windows, complemented by stained glass in some lights. The roof is slated with ashlar-coped skews. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers drain the building.

The interior is galleried, with tall round-headed arcades supported on quatrefoil section cast-iron columns. An open-beamed timber-clad roof spans above. Fixed timber box pews occupy the galleries, their fronts boarded. An octagonal cantilevered pulpit with winding stair and decorative ironwork balusters stands in the nave, accompanied by a carved Communion Table and elders' chairs. Boarded timber dadoes run around the interior walls. Stained glass in the east and west aisles at first-stage level, created by Marjorie Kemp around 1950, depicts New Testament scenes. Classical memorials to three former ministers are displayed in the narthex.

The datestone inscribed '1619' belonged to the former Parish Church, which was demolished in 1849. A bell from that earlier church, inscribed 'I am for the Kirk of Kennochy', is reported in the church's centenary booklet to be located somewhere in England. Wallace Hall was gifted to the church by the Misses Wallace of Newton Hall in loving memory of their uncle, C J Wallace Esq of Newton Hall, and now serves as vestry and office. A 1950 photograph of the church interior records that it then contained plain fixed timber pews and stencilled bands above the dadoes, indicating subsequent changes to the interior. The War Memorial is listed separately.