Parish Church And Churchyard, South Street, Milnathort

The parish church and churchyard, located on South Street in Milnathort, were built between 1867 and 1869 by J and W Ingram. The church is rectangular in plan and features a four-stage tower with a tall spire, accompanied by a single-story church hall. The building is constructed from sandstone ashlar, with a base course and string courses at intervals. Decorative hoodmoulds with decorative label stops adorn the lancet windows, while set-off ashlar buttresses are topped with saw-tooth coping. The interior is galleried.

The east elevation showcases the tower set to the right, positioned at the angle of the gabled elevation. A pointed arch door is centrally located, flanked by lancets; the boarded double doors have decorative cast-iron brackets. Buttresses flank the door to the left and right, with the right buttress continuing upwards into the tower's stages. Above the door is a four-light window with reticulated tracery, incorporating a trefoil in the gablehead and a cross finial at the apex. A lancet window is positioned to the far left of the elevation.

The tower’s four stages feature gablet-coped angle buttresses at the southwest corner, culminating in a broached ashlar spire. A further doorway is located on the north elevation, mirroring the eastern doorway in detail, with a trefoil to the west. Each elevation of the second and third stages contains lancet windows; those on the third stage are smaller and lack hoodmoulds. The fourth stage breaks the skewline to the west, with paired and louvred lancets on the north, south, east, and west sides. The spire reaches a height of 125 feet, incorporating gabled ashlar lucarnes with louvred openings and a ring of four blind gablets at the neck. A decorative wrought-iron cross finial tops the spire.

The north elevation, facing Church Street, has six bays, with the tower in the outer left bay. The remaining bays have tall lancets, separated by buttresses. The south elevation also has six bays, with a doorway in the outer right bay, detailed similarly to the eastern doorway, and a small lancet window above. Tall lancets are present in the remaining bays, again divided by buttresses. The west elevation adjoins the church hall. A decorative rose window is centrally located, accompanied by a trefoil in the gablehead.

Inside, a horseshoe-shaped gallery is open to the west (liturgical east), supported by moulded cast-iron columns with decorative capitals and featuring a gothic, arcaded, timber balustrade. The ceiling is an open timber, ribbed design.

The single-story, rectangular-plan church hall contains a meeting room, an Elders' Room, and a Minister’s Room, extending along the length of the west elevation. The north elevation features a doorway flanked by paired lancets and a gablehead oculus, while the west elevation has four irregularly spaced windows. A tripartite, pointed-arch window with an oculus above, displays a leaded diamond-pane glazing pattern on the side facing the church. The church hall has a grey slate roof, saw-tooth ashlar coping to the skews, and gablet ventilators.

Low sandstone rubble walls with ashlar coping enclose the churchyard, punctuated by piers that once supported railings. Two pairs of ashlar gatepiers have ashlar gablet caps. Decorative cast-iron gates complete the enclosure.