Sorbie Parish Church And Churchyard

Sorbie Parish Church, built between 1874 and 1876, is a Gothic cruciform church featuring a tower on the west side. The church is constructed with rubble walling complemented by polished sandstone quoins and chamfered margins. It has a three-bay nave, single bay transepts, and a chancel. The windows include geometrical tracery in the four-light and rose gable windows, and trefoiled lancets in the nave, primarily featuring small pane glazing with some stained glass. The roof is slate, adorned with end skews, ceramic ridge cresting, and cross finials on the gables. The tower consists of three squat stages, featuring a pointed-arch porch with nook shafts at the ground level, lancets above, and a tall pyramidal slate roof with bracketed eaves on the third stage. There are string courses separating the stages. An adjoining single-storey presbytery is located to the southeast.

Inside, the church was reconstructed in 1938 and features an en suite limed oak pulpit, communion table, lectern, and choir stalls. The nave has two aisles and an open ceiling with braces crossed at the center. The walls are whitewashed, and the windows include a honeycomb lead glazing pattern with coloured, translucent glass. Notable stained glass includes the McEachern Memorial window by Christopher Whall, created around 1915, which commemorates the founding of the Celtic church; a window depicting The Ascension, created around 1873, located by the communion table; and a single light window of St Paul, installed after 1925. The organ was brought from Cally Palace in the Stewartry. The churchyard is walled and features a simple square burial vault to the northeast, made of rubble with squared quoins.