The church of Kiltearn dates to pre-Reformation times and indications of an early building are evident in the arch and buttresses found on the east wall.

Rebuilding took place in 1791 to seat a congregation of 700. Prior to that a manse was built in 1762 and was replaced by a later building in 1894.

The Munro family has a long association with the church, with Baron Robert Munro being interred in the churchyard in the 16th century. The minister in 1574, Donald Munro, was reputed to have Castle Craig as his manse, requiring him to cross the firth each Sunday to preach in one of the three churches in the parish – Kiltearn, Lemlair and Alness.

Kiltearn’s most famour minister was Thomas Hog who was appointed in 1654 and whose gravestone is at the south-west corner of the church.

With the return of Charles II and Episcopacy, Thomas Hog was ejected from the parish. He continued to preach but was imprisoned in Forres and (1677) on the Bass Rock. Somehow he fled to Holland and became chaplain to William of Orange. When William and Mary were on the British throne Hog returned to Kiltearn in 1690 and died there in 1692.

Around 1940 the church was abandoned, being deemed too far from Evanton village (or could it be that regular attendance by a civilian congregation presented problems for the many wartime military installations in the vicinity?) and the building known as the Hog Memorial Hall became what is now Kiltearn Church of Scotland.