Ardwell Church, Ardwell

Ardwell Church, built between 1900 and 1902 by P MacGregor Chalmers, is a Gothic cruciform church featuring a steeple on the east side. The church is constructed from squared and snecked tooled sandstone, with a base course and clasped buttresses.

The tower is two stages high and topped with an octagonal spire. It has steps leading to a recessed timber door on the south elevation of the first stage, as well as steps to two recessed timber doors on the west elevation. The stair tower features narrow rectangular slits. At the second stage, there are nook-shafts flanking two-light openings on all sides, octagonal corner pinnacles on the spire, and tall gabled pointed arch lucarnes.

The south entrance elevation includes steps leading to an advanced bargeboarded gabled porch with a two-leaf timber door. It has two pointed arch traceried windows for the nave and a larger window on the cruciform gable, which also has a cruciform finial. There is a recessed timber door at the right re-entrant angle and a pointed arch window to the outer right.

On the east side elevation, there are two narrow pointed arch lights for the advanced baptistry, which has a castellated parapet, and two pointed arch lights for the nave with a roundel above the gablehead. The tower is located on the outer left.

The north rear elevation features a single pointed arch light on the outer left of the transept and another single pointed arch light at the left re-entrant angle of the transept. There is a two-light pointed arch tracery window in the transept with a roundel and hoodmould, along with three pointed arch tracery windows for the nave and a single pointed arch window at the left re-entrant angle of the tower. The tower is on the outer right.

The west side elevation has a pointed arch traceried window in the gable, flanked by clasped buttresses, and a cruciform finial at the gablehead.

Inside, the church features a timber pulpit, lectern, and carved pews, along with an open timber roof supported by conical stone corbels on collar braces. The laird's pew is located in the south transept, with an organ in the north transept. A stained glass two-light east window depicts Our Lord Stilling The Storm, created by William Wilson in 1953. There is a two-bay arcade leading to the baptistry and a stone font.

The church has small-paned leaded windows, a grey slate roof with red ridge tiles, stone skews, and skewputts.

Surrounding the church are low boundary walls with coped tops, triangular-coped gatepiers at the central entrance and on the outer left and right, along with timber gates.