St Ninian's Parish Church, Lewis Street, Stranraer

St Ninian's Parish Church, located on Lewis Street in Stranraer, is a near rectangular-plan Victorian Gothic church designed by Alexander C Pettigrew between 1883 and 1884. The building is constructed from whinstone with red sandstone dressings, featuring a base course, a decorative band course on the east elevation, and a corbel table at the wallhead of the nave.

The east elevation includes steps leading to two central arched entrances, which have roll-moulded trefoil arches and two-leaf timber boarded doors. The façade is flanked by muscular buttresses topped with triangular finials, with the outer left buttress supporting a stone spire and an octagonal turret, while a smaller octagonal turret is positioned on the outer right. There is a parapeted porch, a hoodmoulded rose window, a crowstepped gable with a roundel, and a cross finial atop the gable.

On the south elevation, there is a bowed stair tower on the outer right, which features a corbelled-out semi-octagonal caphouse with a finial. A timber door is located to the right at ground level, along with three sets of 3-light windows and another timber door at the re-entrant angle on the outer left. The nave has six small lights.

The north elevation has two single windows on the outer left at ground level, three sets of 3-light windows, and eight small lights to the nave. There is a recessed 4-bay section on the outer left with a timber door and three single windows, leading to a hall at the rear. The church features plate tracery rose windows with stained leaded glass and is topped with a grey slate roof, complemented by cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the chancel houses an organ by Peter Conacher & Co, with stencilled pipes and a round hoodmoulded west window. There are 7-light brass gasoliers flanking the chancel arch and timber doors on either side. The interior also includes a timber pulpit, lectern, elders' chairs, a communion table, pews, and a stone font. A timber gallery is situated to the east, along with a rose window. The church features 3-bay stone arcades supported by granite columns with sandstone carved foliage capitals, a boarded ceiling, and stencilling work depicting gablets and stars.

The boundary walls surrounding the church are made of whinstone and topped with circular pierced coping. Square-plan gatepiers with ornate decorative caps mark the central pedestrian entrance and the outer right pedestrian entrance, both of which are fitted with iron gates.