Mouswald Parish Church

Mouswald Parish Church is a small, plain, rectangular-plan church with three bays, built around 1816 and remodelled by architect J M Bowie of Dumfries circa 1929. The church features painted rubble walls with red ashlar dressings, a porch, a bell turret, and a spire. It is designed in a Gothic style, with a hood-moulded, painted central doorway on the west gable. The tall gabled porch has cusped panels and a swept gable detail, supporting an octagonal bell turret that has louvred openings linked by looped hoodmoulding to each face, topped by a squat, faceted, and crocketted spire with an apex cross.

Hood-moulded, pointed windows with cusped tracery flank the porch, and similar windows are found in the bays. The west end has panelled clasping buttresses with gableted pinnacles, and a gableted finial is located over the east gable. The former vestry has been converted into a chancel, and a low, bull-faced, red ashlar porch has been added in the southeast re-entrant angle. The church has shaped skews and slate roofs.

Inside, the church features a plain boarded dado, a vaulted roof, and pews. There is an octagonal pulpit and a leaded three-light chancel window that is undated. An early stone font sits on a modern base.

The churchyard is enclosed by quadrangular walls made of rubble with ashlar coping, featuring gates at either end of the south wall with square rusticated ashlar gatepiers. To the southeast of the church is a hearse house. There is also a square-plan, rubble-built, crenellated burial enclosure against the south wall of the church, which includes a 1655 armorial panel and an armoured male effigy in the re-entrant angle, along with some notable 17th to 19th-century stone monuments.