The sculptor, a local stonemason named James Howie, also carved a panel below the figure depicting the Battle of Bannockburn.

In a prominent position by the Bow Butts is a monument commemorating the men of Ceres who fought in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.

Fetched from a field near Pitscottie, he was greeted in the village where his flag was carried in procession and the church bell rung in his honour.

The Fife Folk Museum is located in the village in a range of buildings including the old weigh-house[2] where grain was weighed at a tron on market days.

The museum began in 1968 in the renovation and conversion[3] of the former weigh-house and adjoining cottages through an initiative by Cupar & North Fife Preservation Society.

The parish of Ceres has some biblical place names: Babylon near Muirhead, south of Craigrothie, and Sodom and Gomorrah (locally pronounced Gemorrie) and Purgatory on the road to Pitscottie.

The Ceres Games are said to have been held every year since 1314 after Robert the Bruce granted the village permission to hold them in commemoration of its men's participation in the Battle of Bannockburn.

Apart from the addition of electric lighting and two early 20th-century stained glass windows (either side of the central pulpit), the interior is substantially unaltered from when first built and retains the gallery and original wooden box pews.

One serving past minister of Ceres has been Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (1588): Thomas Buchanan, said to be the subject of "The Provost" sculpture, in the village centre.