Beith High Church was built on its present site 248ft above the level of Kilbirnie Loch (ie 343ft above sea level) at a cost of £2445. Building began in March 1807. It is on record that, in connection with the ceremony of laying the foundation stone, expenses incurred included the following:-
To hospitality to the visitors and at the laying of the foundation stone
£10-18shillings.
To music £12-12shillings
The Church was opened for divine service on the 19th August 1810. In 1885 it was extended and re-seated, being then designed to seat 1254. Later, cylindrical stones from Trearne Mansion were incorporated in the gate pillars when Trearne was demolished, and the double stone cross on the east gable was hewn by Mr John McLeish, a mason with Smith Brothers of Beith. When the Auld Kirk(built in 1593 and the predecessor to the present High Church) was in use, the Parish of Beith then comprised Kilwinning, Dunlop and Beith. People from Lochwinnoch Parish attended the Beith Kirk to the exclusion of some Beith parishoners. Eventually the Paliament of King Charles 1st passed an Act in 1633 for the building of a new Church "in good ample and sufficient forme in all respects"for the benefit of parishoners "who cannot goodlie addres and convene thameselffes . . . . . be reassound of the stormes of weather. and of the deep and evill wayes. " It was to be another one hundred and seventy years before building actually commenced! In his "Cunninghame Topographized"Belived to have been written during the period 1610-1620 Tomothy Pont, minister of the Parish of Dunnett in the county of Caithness merely recorded that "Byith Kirk is a parochiall church fituate neir the laick of Kilburny. "
The Communion Table and three large chairs, all of bog-oak, were installed when the Chancel area was altered in 1896. The centre chair is used on occasion by the Minister. The use of the others is restrictered mainly to Communion Services. The Baptismal Font was presented to the Church in 1896, it is of marble and onyx. Its small silver baptismal basin is of an earlier date, being inscribed "Parish Kirk of Beith 1853. " Around the top of the font are the words "Suffer little children to come unto me"and the font bears the inscription "Presented by William Muir Esq. , J. P. , Mains, Beith, for the service of God. In loving memory of his eldest daughter Jessie, died 27th February 1890. "
The Lectern, made in 1928 by Mr John MKechnie of Beithcraft, was the gift of Mr & Mrs Hugh Balfour of Ravenswood. Mr McKechnie's work is also featured on the Pulpit, constructed in 1928. The brass Lectern on the Communion Table was gifted by the Rev. J. Murray Woodburn in November 1938.
The Church Organ was built in 1885 by Harrison & Harrison a well known Durham organ builder, and consists of no fewer than 1692 organ pipes, the largest, sixteen feet in length and the smallest about six or seven inches. The "case"of Gothic style was designed and built by John Pollock of the local Victoria Works. The first performance on the organ was given at an inaugral concert on the 2nd April 1886, for which, prices ranged from three shillings to six pence. It featured Mr John Hartley, the organist of St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh and from Paisley the soprano Miss Agnes Fulton and baritone Mr W. H. Gibson together with the High Church choir augmented to forty voices. The concert opened with the 100th Psalm and closed with two verses of the National Anthem, both items with full audience, choir and organ.