St Adrian's Church And Churchyard, Main Street, West Wemyss

St Adrian's Church is a plain gothic-detailed church designed by Alexander Tod in 1890, and erected by A. Stewart Tod. It was altered in 1969 by Charles R. Tod, and features a mural by William McLaren dating from the same year. Adjacent is an 18th-century graveyard. The church has a cruciform plan and is constructed from red sandstone rubble with dressed ashlar quoins and rock-faced margins. It incorporates pointed-arch and round openings and has three-stage coped buttresses and stone mullions.

The south-west (entrance) elevation has a broad, crowstepped gable with small, crowstepped outer porches, each with a small window to the south-west and a door to the inner returns, linked by a gothic loggia. A two-leaf panelled timber door is centrally positioned, and above it is a large, tri-lobed rose window set within a cross-finialled gable.

The south-east elevation showcases the nave with three tripartite windows to the left of the centre, and a gabled transept to the right with a lancet and a blind oculus in the gablehead, coupled with a bipartite window on the return to the left. A smaller crowstepped bay projects to the outer right, incorporating a boarded timber door to the left and a square-headed window to the right.

The north-west elevation mirrors the nave and transept of the south-east elevation (the latter with a blocked lancet), with a crowstepped bay to the outer left, although some detailing is obscured by a wall. The north-east elevation includes a large, raised tripartite window to the centre of the cross-finialled gable, with single lancets to the outer bays – though all openings are now blocked.

The church features multi-pane diamond-pattern leaded glazing with coloured margins. It is roofed with large grey slates, known as Countess slates, except for the south-east transept and the outer right bay, which have modern grey slates. Ashlar-coped skewes have moulded skewputts, and there are cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

The interior contains oak chairs within the timber-panelled nave, punctuated by engaged polygonal marble columns with cushion capitals supporting an open-beamed boarded timber roof. A later dividing wall features a mural depicting Christ and trumpeting angels, and includes broken-pedimented doors leading to a smaller hall. The transepts now lead to the small hall – the original chancel – which houses wall plaques commemorating former ministers and stone engravings of the Ten Commandments. The oak pulpit is constructed from panels taken from Wemyss Castle. A variety of memorials are found within the nave, including a marble WWII memorial and a wall plaque in memory of Stewart Tod, the estate architect and church elder.

Coped rubble boundary walls enclose the graveyard and church. The graveyard, opened in 1703, contains a variety of 18th, 19th and 20th-century monuments, some in fair condition.