This church is the latest in a series of buildings on the same site since at least the 12th century. The present church was constructed in 1834-5 by James MacFarlane and was altered in 1884-6. It is on flat ground at the northern end of a graveyard which slopes down to the south. The old graveyard is higher than the surrounding ground level and is surrounded by high saddle back coped random rubble walls. The original gateway was in the western wall, in line with the church porch, but this is now blocked with a low wall topped with railings, though the large ashlar pyramidal coped gate piers with ball finials are still present. There would originally have been steps up to the higher ground level on the interior of the churchyard but these have now been covered over. The present entrance gates are at the northern end of the western wall. There is a further opening in the southern end of the western wall with sandstone block gate piers. There is a gateway at the northern end of the eastern wall which gives access to the new section of the cemetery. The oldest gravestones date to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and are likely to be associated with the previous church on the site. The newer gravestones, which date to the nineteenth century, are further away from the church at the southern end of the graveyard.



By the 1880s the graveyard was proving to be too small and it was extended in 1897, and the Old Beath Cemetery across the road to the west of the original graveyard was established. The graveyard was extended in the late nineteenth century and Beath Old Cemetery across the road to the west was established. This cemetery was further extended and a new section of the cemetery was established to the south of the old graveyard. There is also what may have been a hearse house just outside the boundary walls of the old graveyard at the southwest corner. This cemetery is surrounded by stepped random rubble walls topped with iron railings on the road (east) side and the entrance gates are at the southern end of this wall. The highest ground is at the northern side of the cemetery, with the ground sloping downwards to the south. This cemetery was later extended to the land on the other side of the road, to the south of the original graveyard. The entrance gates for the older and new sections of the cemetery face each other on opposite sides of the road.



•The Kirk O' Beath [Beath Old Kirk] was constructed in the 1100s under the jurisdiction of Inchcolm abbey, and was located on the same site as the present Parish Church





There is also a Baptist Church in Cowdenbeath; it is on Chapel Street next to a residential area