Parish Church, Main Street, Portpatrick

The Parish Church on Main Street in Portpatrick was designed by William Burn and built between 1840 and 1842. This Gothic style church has a rectangular plan and features a three-stage tower. It is constructed from whinstone with cherry-cock pointing and sandstone ashlar dressings, including a base course, blocking course, and buttresses at the angles and dividing the northeast elevation bays.

The southwest entrance elevation showcases an advanced square-plan tower with three stages, separated by a string course. It has steps leading to a roll-moulded arched entrance porch with a two-leaf timber door, which has the date "1842" inscribed above it. There are single lights on the southeast and northwest elevations, and arched lights with hoodmoulds at the second stage. The third stage features arched louvred lights on all elevations, topped by a conical-roofed round tower at the northwest corner, which includes corbelled battlements and cannon spouts. The ground level of the tower is flanked by single arched lights.

On the northwest elevation, there are three arched lights to the nave, with an advanced gabled porch to the outer left that has a two-leaf timber door, flanked by buttresses on the outer right. The northeast elevation includes a central loop tracery light, flanked by single lights, and a louvred oculus at the gablehead topped with a cross finial. The southeast elevation has three arched lights to the nave and a single timber door to the outer left, along with an advanced rendered and whinstone extension to the outer right, which features a boarded timber entrance door at the re-entrant angle.

The church contains leaded and stained glass windows, a grey slate roof, stone skews, and cast iron rainwater goods. Inside, there is a timber pulpit, lectern, elders' chairs, pews, and a gallery from 1932, with Victorian pews that have been stripped of varnish. The northeast window depicts Our Lord stilling the storm, created by J & W Guthrie & Andrew Wells Ltd between 1918 and 1919.

The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls, which include iron gatepiers and gates.