Penninghame Parish Church, Church Street, Newton Stewart

Penninghame Parish Church, designed by architect William Burn in 1838, is a cruciform Gothic church located on Church Street in Newton Stewart. The church features bull-faced walling with contrasting polished cream sandstone margins, angles, and buttresses, and has a tower at the south gable.

The structure includes a 2-bay nave with projecting single bay transepts and a single bay chancel. The pointed-arch portals of the tower have nook shafts, while the transepts feature basket-arched entrances. All doors are double-leaf panelled, and the windows are pointed-arch with hoodmoulds; the transepts have tripartite windows, while the other windows are single light with iron-framed hexagonal-paned glazing. The tower is stepped in three stages, with a portal at the ground level, louvered traceried lights on the first stage, and a clock face on the second stage, topped with a parapet. Pinnacles rise from the buttresses, and a tall facetted ashlar spire with two levels of lucarnes rises from the parapet.

The church has skews to the gable ends and is covered with slate roofs. At the rear, a mission hall was added in 1881 in a plainer Gothic style, using the same materials as the church, and features a flat-roofed extension with three light windows on the gable ends.

Inside, the church boasts a very fine and well-preserved interior, with galleries on three sides supported by cast-iron columns. The carved pulpit, communion table, and reredos are all original, and the ceiling features open timber trusses.

The property is enclosed by low coped polished granite boundary walls with cast-iron railings and gates. A pair of square polished granite gatepiers support oversized cast-iron lamp brackets.