Fig. 1410.—Keith Church. Plan.
The church (Fig. [1410]) is now a ruin and is covered with a thick growth of ivy. It measures, internally, 59 feet 8 inches in length by 14 feet in width at the east end, and 15 feet in width at the west end. The east end is apparently the oldest portion, the east wall and north wall, as far as the break shown in the Plan, and a corresponding portion of the south wall being faced with ashlar. The remainder of the structure, westwards from the above, is built with rubble, and is apparently of later date. The north wall is much broken down, but the other walls are in fair preservation. The east end, as viewed from the interior (Fig. [1411]) (where the growth of ivy allows the features to be tolerably seen), is an unusual and rather striking design, consisting of two narrow lancet windows, widely splayed internally, and a large vesica-formed opening above them. These windows have a broad double splay on the exterior of the jambs and arches.
One round-headed and cusped window survives in the south wall close to the east end (Fig. [1412]), and the Plan shows that there has been another window adjoining, but it is now built up. The west end wall (Fig. [1413])
Fig. 1411.—Keith Church. Interior of East End.
contains a single small pointed window, evidently of a late date. So far as can now be ascertained from the building the east end or chancel is comparatively ancient, probably of the beginning of the sixteenth century, and the remainder has been rebuilt not long after the Reformation.
A good seventeenth century monument is erected against the south wall (see Fig. [1412]).
Fig. 1412.—Keith Church. View from South-East.