Ladyburn Masonic Temple, Glenluce

The Ladyburn Masonic Temple, dated 1889 and designed by John McLachlan, is a Gothic church accompanied by an adjoining hall and vestry. The exterior is constructed of rubble, with squared and snecked stonework to the south elevation, and painted above the hall and vestry to the north. Red sandstone ashlar dressings are used throughout, featuring pointed-arched lights with chamfered and quoined margins, as well as an eaves course, saddleback-coped skews with gabletted skewputts on skewblocks, and a deeply-pitched roof covered in grey-green slates with a red tile ridging. Original rainwater goods are retained. Most windows are now blocked.

The south elevation’s focal point is a hoodmoulded pointed-arched window with five-light tracery, stepped up over a porch below; a miniature stepped three-light window sits at the gable apex. A rectangular-plan porch projects from gabled buttresses, featuring a gabled doorway at the centre with cusped detail, a cusped arcade connecting the gable to the raised side wall, a hoodmoulded and moulded pointed-arched doorway with an escutcheon inscribed “1889” and surrounding carved floreation, and double-leaf boarded doors. Cusped lancet windows are positioned to the left and right, with buttresses marking the outer edges. Further lancet windows are present to the east and west returns. The west and east elevations are four-bay structures. The bay to the left on each features a stepped three-light window, while the remaining bays have paired lights. The hall extends to the right of each. The north elevation incorporates a round window and a miniature stepped three-light window in the gable apex. A piend-roofed single-storey hall and vestry are adjoined at ground level and project to the west beyond the church's west elevation, with steps leading to a door on the south return. The north face has three windows, while the east face has five, and a door and two windows to the right. A wallhead stack is located on the left of the north elevation.

The interior features two aisles leading to a four-bay nave, with a pointed-arched arcade resting on bell-capitaled columns, with the exception of depressed arches at the north end bays. A coombed timber ceiling is present. A timber Gothic arcaded and quatrefoiled communion rail is located on the north side, alongside decorative bracketed light fittings. Two doors provide access to the vestry and hall to the north and two to the vestibule to the south, where a marble memorial tablet is displayed. Depressed-arched embrasures are included. Original pews are retained, with some removed to the north.

Stained glass is present in the three-light window on the west elevation, and the central light of the three-light window on the east elevation, depicting "All power is given to me" and signed by William Meikle & Sons, Glasgow, 1905. Geometric leaded coloured glass is featured in other windows, most of which are now blocked. The building is enclosed by cast-iron gateposts and two-leaf gates leading onto Bankfield Road, a low rubble wall with saddleback coping and railings to the left, and a brick wall adjoining Ladyburn Bridge (listed separately).