Menmuir Parish Church

David Smith, 1842 incorporating dated 1639 burial vault; circa 1947 interior refurnishing. Rectangular-plan former parish church. Stugged, squared and coursed red sandstone with margins. Base course. Shallow pointed-arched openings with chamfered arises. 2-light and Y-traceried windows; those to N, W and S elevation with stone transom. Cruciform finial to E gable. W gable with window flanked by entrances with 2-leaf panelled timber doors; square bellcote with finial to gable apex.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: N elevation incorporating burial vault of the Carnegys of Balnamoon off centre to left; elliptical arch with heraldic panel above (see NOTES) and later inscribed stone plaques; enclosed by low sandstone ashlar wall with moulded cope and topped by cast iron decorative railings and taller rubble and coped wall to E with memorial plaques. S elevation with carved memorial panel to left set within gableted frame and carved angel head at apex (see NOTES).

Pitched roof, grey slates. Saddlebacked-coped skews and moulded skewputts.

INTERIOR (seen 2012): coombed and ribbed ceiling with corbels and foliated bosses. Raked timber gallery to W wall supported on painted cast iron columns, with cusped carving to balustrade. Refurnished circa 1947 including timber pulpit.