Parish Church And Burial-Ground, Borgue

The Parish Church and Burial-Ground in Borgue is a neo-Gothic church designed by architect Walter Newall in 1814, with an interior refitted around 1890 in the style of James Barbour of Dumfries. The church has a T-plan layout and features a square tower on the east wall, constructed from squared coursed rubble with polished red sandstone margins.

The building includes a 2-bay nave and a shallow projecting buttressed porch on the south and west gables. The north gable has a square gabled porch added around 1890. It is adorned with wide 4-centre arched windows that showcase unusual 2-tiered tracery, an early example of this design, along with hoodmoulds. A small-pane stack is present.

The tower is divided into three stages, featuring intermediate band courses. The first stage has single lancet windows, the second stage has bipartite windows with hoodmoulds, and the third stage has louvred openings. The tower is topped with a cornice, an embattled parapet, and squat pinnacles at the corners. The gables are accentuated with kneeler skewputts and scroll skewputts, and remnants of removed cross-finials can be seen. The church has slate roofs throughout.

On the north gable, there is a square plan, single-storey porch or vestry added in the later 19th century, made of rubble walling and featuring an embattled parapet. A good cast-iron spiral staircase at the southeast re-entrant angle provides access to a narrow door at the second stage of the tower.

Inside, the church was refitted around 1890 and features a timber-lined open truss roof from the same period. The churchyard is surrounded by rubble walls and contains mainly 19th-century gravestones.