Old Parish Church, Church Street, Annan

The Old Parish Church in Annan, designed likely by mason John Hannah and wrights James Beattie and John Oliver, dates back to 1789. This parish church features classical details and has a five-stage tower with a spire centrally located on the main south elevation. The body of the church has a rectangular plan and originally included rear forestairs, which were replaced around 1870 by a large session house with vestibules that house gallery steps in the re-entrant angles. The structure is built of coursed red rubble with polished margins and rusticated quoins, topped with slate roofs.

The tower, completed in its upper part between 1798 and 1801, consists of four lower square stages. The rusticated lower stage features doorpieces with Doric columns and a pediment, a panelled door with a decorative fanlight, and a Venetian window in the stage above. The fourth stage has clock faces on all elevations, and above it is an octagonal drum with louvred round-headed belfry openings, culminating in a stone steeple topped with a weather vane finial.

The body of the church has two tall round-headed windows on each side of the tower, with two leaded windows inserted in 1912 and outer windows featuring intersecting tracery. The three-bay flanks, originally with central doors, now have windows at both ground and gallery levels, the latter being round-headed. A continuous cornice runs along the structure.

Inside, the church has been altered, likely during the modifications to the north side around 1870. A gallery spans three sides, supported by cast-iron columns and featuring a panelled timber front. The Town Council's bench is centrally located, topped with an original decorative barrel-vaulted canopy supported by fluted square columns. The pulpit is positioned centrally on the south wall, with a possibly circa 1900 organ case behind it. There are also two marble monuments on the north wall.

The churchyard presumably opened around 1789 when the old parish church was abandoned. It mainly contains 19th-century stone monuments, including a Gothick mausoleum to the north with a central pyramidal finial, and a 1696 stone that was likely re-sited from the old churchyard. A stone ashlar wall borders the roadside to the south, with outer gateways featuring ball-finialled square piers.