Wigtown Parish Church, Wigtown

Wigtown Parish Church, built in 1858, is a Neo-Gothic rectangular hall church featuring a side aisle and a tower that projects from the east wall, with gables on the north and south sides. A lower vestry and porch extend to the west. The church is constructed with rubble walling and polished cream ashlar quoins, margins, and dressings, with buttressed angles. The gable walls are adorned with three tall stepped lancet windows and an oculus at the apex. The five-bay flanks have single lancets, and the east side aisle includes three tall lancets. The tower is designed in three stages, with buttressing at the second stage, a pointed-arch entrance at the ground level, single lancets at the second stage, and louvred bipartites at the third stage. The tower is topped with a pyramidal roof made of slates that alternate with bands of fish-scale tiles. The main church features a good slate roof, saw-tooth end skews, and decorative finials.

Inside, there is a three-arch screen leading to the side aisle, and stained glass lights illuminate the gable ends. The church has an open timber trussed roof.

The churchyard is enclosed by a rubble wall and contains several notable carved gravestones from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is the site of the former Wigtown Old Parish Church. The churchyard features a low coped rubble wall with ashlar gatepiers and internal piers topped with pyramidal caps, although the gates are missing.

Additionally, there is a Martyrs Grave, which is a square enclosure surrounded by cast-iron fleur-de-lis railings, some of which are missing. Inside the enclosure, there is a tabletop monument and two gravestones.