Middlebie Parish Church And Churchyard

Middlebie Parish Church, designed by John MacLintock Bowie of Dumfries and dated 1928, is a cruciform-plan Gothic church featuring a low chancel and twin-gabled transepts. The church has flat-roofed porches located in the west re-entrant angles and is constructed from roughly squared rubble with polished dressings. The west front of the nave includes a large traceried window with a hood mould above a two-centred arched doorway, which has a two-leaf timber door. Plain angle buttresses support the structure, with a two-dimensional belfry featuring a bronze bell at the southwest corner and a cross finial atop the main gable. Each porch has a west-facing door and window. The chancel and transept gables also feature traceried windows, while the nave flanks are adorned with rectangular tripartite windows with simple tracery, similar to those on the chancel flanks, and quatrefoil lights at the gallery level. The church has raised shaped skews and slated roofs.

Inside, the walls are faced with snecked bull-faced ashlar. There is a vestibule screen at the west with a gallery above, both featuring applied tracery. The original pews remain in place, and the transepts are located behind an arcaded screen.

The churchyard slopes steeply down to the south and east, with a rubble-built boundary wall only at the north. The graveyard contains mostly 18th and 19th-century headstones, some of which feature notable artisan sculpture.