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

Designed Alexander Tod, 1890; erected A Stewart Tod; altered Charles R Tod, 1969; mural William McLaren, 1969. 18th century graveyard. Cruciform-plan, plain gothic-detailed, crowstepped church with 3-bay aisless nave with dividing buttresses, and tri-lobe tracery rose window. Red sandstone rubble with dressed ashlar quoins and rock-faced margins. Pointed-arch and round openings. 3-stage coped buttresses; stone mullions.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: broad crowstepped gable with small crowstepped outer porches, each with small window to SW and door to inner returns, linked by gothic loggia; set-back 2-leaf panelled timber door to centre. Large tri-lobed rose window (see Notes) above in cross-finialled gable.

SE ELEVATION: nave with 3 tripartite windows to left of centre; gabled transept to right with lancet and blind oculus in gablehead, and bipartite window on return to left; smaller crowstepped bay projecting to outer right with boarded timber door to left and square-headed window to right.

NW ELEVATION: nave and transept as above (latter with blocked lancet), crowstepped bay to outer left (detail obscured by wall).

NE ELEVATION: large raised centre tripartite window to centre of cross-finialled gable with single lancets to outer bays (all openings blocked).

Multi-pane diamond pattern leaded glazing with coloured margins. Large grey slates (Countess slates) except SE transept and outer right bay with modern grey slate. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts; and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: oak chairs in timber panelled nave punctuated by engaged polygonal marble columns with cushion capitals supporting open-beamed boarded timber roof. Later dividing wall with mural of Christ and trumpeting angels (see Notes) and broken-pedimented doors leading to smaller hall. Transepts now lead to small hall (original chancel) with wall plaques commemorating former ministers and stone engravings of the '10 Commandments'. Oak Pulpit made of panels from Wemyss Castle. Variety of memorials to nave include marble WWII memorial, and wall plaque in memory of Stewart Tod, estate architect and church elder.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GRAVEYARD AND MONUMENTS: coped rubble boundary walls enclosing graveyard and church. Graveyard opened 1703, variety of 18th, 19th century (some in fair condition), and 20th century monuments.