Ladyburn Masonic Temple, Glenluce

John McLachlan, 1889 (dated). Gothic church, with adjoining hall

and vestry. Rubble; squared and snecked to S elevation; painted to N above hall and verstry. Red sandstone ashlar dressings. Pointed-arched lights. Chamfered and quoined margins. Eaves course. Saddleback-coped skews; gabletted skewputts on skewblocks. Grey-green slates to deeply-pitched roof. Red tile ridging. Leaded ventilator to ridge. Original rainwater goods. Windows mainly blocked.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: hoodmoulded pointed-arched window with 5-light tracery, stepped up over porch below; miniature stepped 3-light window in apex of gable; cusped detail at apex. Rectangular-plan porch advanced from gabled buttresses; gabled over doorway at centre to S, with cusped detail at apex; cusped arcade, linking gable to raised gabled side wall s; hoodmoulded and moulded pointed-arched doorway, with escutcheon inscribed "1889" and surrounding floreated carving in apex, and double-leaf boarded doors; cusped lancet window to left and right; buttress to outer left and right; cusped lancet window to E and W returns. Cusped lancet window to left and right of porch.

W ELEVATION: 4-bay. Gabled bay to outer left, with stepped 3-light window. Paired lights in remaining bays. Hall adjoined to right.

E ELEVATION: 4-bay. Gabled bay to outer right, with stepped 3-light window. Paired lights in remaining bays. Hall adjoined to right.

N ELEVATION: round window; miniature stepped 3-light window in apex of gable. Piend-roofed single storey hall and vestry adjoined at ground, and advanced to W beyond W elevation of church; steps to door to S return; 3 windows to W; 5 windows to N; door to left and 2 windows to right to E. Wallhead stack to left to N.

INTERIOR: 2 aisles to 4-bay nave; pointed-arched arcade on bell-capitaled columns, except depressed arches in end bays to N. Coombed timber ceiling. Timber Gothic arcaded and quatrefoiled communion rail to N; decroative bracketted light fittings. 2 doors to vestry and hall to N. 2 doors to vestibule to S; marble mural tablet in vestibule. Depressed-arched embrasures. Original pews, some removed to N.

STAINED GLASS: stained glass in 3-light window to W. Centre light in 3-light window to E, "All power is given to me", by William Meikle & Sons, Glasgow, 1905 (see NOTES). Coloured geometric-pane leaded glazing (most windows blocked).

Cast-iron gateposts and 2-leaf gates to Bankfield Road; low rubble wall, with saddleback coping and railings to left; brick wall to right, adjoined to Ladyburn Bridge (see separate listing).