Churchyard, Half Morton Parish Church

The church building, probably dating to 1744, is a four-bay structure that was repaired and enlarged around 1795, with alterations perhaps to the north jamb. The building was subsequently heightened several masonry courses, possibly around 1830, and renovated in 1889. It is rubble-built with ashlar dressings, with a rendered south elevation and east gable. A splayed base course runs along the body of the church, and there are four pointed windows (likely from 1889) along the long south wall, along with an eaves moulding. A gabled porch is situated on the east side, featuring iron cresting and a shouldered south-facing door. A vestry adjoins the west gable. A distinctive birdcage belfry, also likely dating to 1889, sits atop the east gable. The roof is covered with graded slates. A boiler room, located in the north-west re-entrant angle, was demolished around 1985, exposing a blocked square-headed window on the west wall jamb. The north gable window was originally a door.

The interior features a plaster-vaulted roof and a panelled timber pulpit centrally located on the long south wall.

The churchyard is a quadrangular enclosure, bordered by rubble-built walls with partly ashlar-coped tops, extended to the south in the 20th century. Plain gatepiers with wrought-iron gates and a stile are situated on the east side. The churchyard contains mainly 18th and 19th century stone monuments, some with classical ornament.

The church remains an ecclesiastical building in use as such. According to the Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, the church was “rebuilt about 1703,” although no primary source is cited to support this claim. An Old Statistical Account report (Langholm) suggests that the building was “soon … to be repaired and enlarged.”

The building and churchyard are of group value.