St Ninian's Church, Lady Hill, Davoch Of Grange

This is a plain rectangular church built in 1795-6, with substantial additions and recasting carried out by A & W in 1888. The south elevation has four large round-headed windows with lattice-pane glazing and surviving shutter hooks; a gallery window is positioned at the east end. A bellcote with a ball finial sits atop the west gable apex, and the roof is covered in local slate. The north wall is largely blank. A two-storey porch with a doorway in the north face and windows above was added at the west gable, along with a vestry at the east end. The exterior is mainly harled with tooled ashlar margins, with the additions displaying tooled rubble and ashlar dressings.

The west gable porch has ground and first-floor windows with two panes of glazing and features a string course and corniced wallhead. Inside, the interior was recased in 1888, with a gallery at the west end supported by cast-iron columns and featuring panelled frontwork, which may incorporate reused panelling from a previous gallery. An organ and pulpit are located at the east end, alongside plain pine seating and a dado. The ceiling has been lowered and boarded.

The church is enclosed on the north and northwest by a coped rubble wall with an entrance on the northwest, flanked by simple square gate piers with plain square caps, linked to lower, similar end piers by quadrants.

The church is situated on a mounded, partially moated site that was formerly occupied by a tower house built by Abbot Thomas of Kinloss Abbey in 1525. The site, known as 'Castlehill', was chosen in 1795-6 for the new church because the ground was more stable than at the location of the earlier church, which stood in the present burial ground and was reported to be 'ruinous' at that time. The church remains in ecclesiastical use.