St Rufus Church, Church Road, Keith

St Rufus Church, located on Church Road in Keith, was designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1816, with alterations made by James Matthews in 1875. This large church features a perpendicular Gothic style, characterized by its five-bay buttressed long elevations on the north and south sides, and a four-stage tower at the west end. The building is constructed from mixed rubble with tooled and polished sandstone ashlar dressings.

The east gable is wide and includes a central shallow entrance porch, which is supported by angle buttresses and topped with a crenellated wallhead. There are tall hoodmoulded blind windows on either side of the entrance, with a squat traceried window above that provides light to the gallery. The long elevations have set-off buttresses and hoodmoulded perpendicular traceried windows, along with a crenellated wallhead, crowstepped gables, and a cross finial at the east end. The roof is made of slate.

The four-stage tower is centrally located in the west gable and features entrances on the north and south sides, with the northern entrance being blind and the southern entrance dated. The tower has angle buttresses, diminishing stages, and a crenellated wallhead adorned with crocketted angle pinnacles. There are clock faces on the north, south, and west sides, each set in Gothic Perpendicular detailed frames.

Inside, the entrance lobby at the east leads to mirrored stairs that ascend to the gallery. The horseshoe-shaped gallery is supported by cast-iron cluster columns and features a cusped panelled front with a centrally placed gilded coat-of-arms of Seafield. An organ is located at the west end, housed in a carved case, and is fronted by a carved and panelled rectangular pulpit that is accessed by a short flight of steps with a brass handrail.

A mural aumbry, believed to be a Sacrament House from the old Keith church (which was previously located in the current burial ground), dates back to around 1500 and has been re-set in the west wall to the left of the pulpit. The aumbry is initialled "I O" and features a worn inscription, along with a carved monogram that may have been part of a former finial.

The church is enclosed by coped rubble walls, with the entrance flanked by square ashlar gatepiers topped with pyramidal caps and a pair of cast-iron carriage gates.