Church Of Scotland, Ervie-Kirkcolm Parish Church, Church Road, Kirkcolm

The Ervie-Kirkcolm Parish Church, located on Church Road, Kirkcolm, is a T-plan church built in 1824. The interior was substantially remodelled and re-oriented in 1964. The church is constructed of rubble, with the south elevation and vestry lime-washed. Sandstone ashlar dressings feature droved rybats, rebated chamfered margins, and pointed-arched windows with timber tracery, mostly Y-tracery, set with small panes of clear glass. Diagonal buttresses define the exterior, topped by an eaves cornice continued under skews on gableheads, coped skews, and cross finials. The roof is covered with slightly graded grey slates.

The south elevation presents a pointed-arched doorway at its centre, leading to a double-leaf door and a lead-paned fanlight, with sandstone steps approached by plain iron handrails. A hoodmoulded window sits above the doorway, featuring two-light perpendicular tracery. The west elevation has windows on either side, and a gabled jamb centrally contains a door above which is another hoodmoulded window with two-light perpendicular tracery. A birdcage bellcote tops the gable, itself surmounted by a cross finial. Square windows with stop-chamfered concrete margins have been inserted to the return elevations. On the south return, a window is present at ground level and a first-floor window to the left; two bipartite windows are on the ground floor of the north return. The north elevation is blank, formerly containing a door at its centre. The east elevation is five bays wide, with dividing buttresses. Windows are positioned in bays to the left and right of the centre, while a gabled former vestry (replacing an earlier one) sits in the central bay, flanked by removed buttresses. A door is to the left and a window to the right, facing south. A brick lean-to is visible in the re-entrant angle to the north, and a brick gablehead stack rises to the east.

Inside, the rectangular-plan interior features painted plaster walls, boarded dadoes, and a coombed ceiling. A decorative plaster rose is a notable feature, along with an octagonal pulpit on the north side (originally positioned centrally on the east side), with steps from the left. A communion table dating from 1904 and a timber font from 1963 are also present. A double-leaf door leads west, above which is a modern, long, small-paned glazed panel providing light to the former laird’s loft. A modern timber vestibule sits below the window on the south side. The interior also includes two marble mural tablets and timber pews.

The graveyard contains 19th-century gravestones and a 20th-century sculpture in a sub-Lorimer style. Adjacent to the church, within the southeast angle, is a Scheduled Monument: a cross-slab likely dating from the 8th to 10th century, consisting of an upright cross-slab set in a cemented rubble base, featuring sculpted crosses on both faces. The graveyard is enclosed by rubble coped rubble walls with square rubble gatepiers and double-leaf iron gates. A war memorial enclosure extends outwards from the south wall, east of the gateway. This enclosure contains a circa 1919 Celtic cross war memorial, constructed from polished granite, set on a chamfered pedestal. Celtic designs are engraved on the north face of the cross, while the north face of the pedestal is inscribed with the names of those who died in the Great War (1914-1918). The east and west faces of the pedestal bear further names, and the south face lists names from 1939-1945. A saddleback coped rubble enclosure with raised corners linked by iron railings stands adjacent, with a panel on the south wall inscribed "Kirkcolm War Memorial 1914-1918".