1500 – no Village Church

St James Chapel eventually ceased to function as a chapel some time in the late 1500s.

The interior of the ruined building later became a cemetery.

For the next three centuries, until the 1850s, villagers would have travelled to the churches in Inverkeithing or in South Queensferry across the water.

In 1642, with the assent of Dunfermline parish, North Queensferry became attached to the Inverkeithing parish church; (North Queensferry remained part of the official parish of Dunfermline until 1855, when it formally transferred to Inverkeithing.)

The sailors of North Queensferry had a loft or gallery in St Peter’s Church Inverkeithing, on the south side of the west end of the church, where they might sit together for worship.