Kirkpatrick Durham Parish Church

Kirkpatrick Durham Parish Church is a rectangular hall church dating to 1748, with an aisle and tower added around 1810, creating a T-shaped layout. James Turner and Joseph Douglas reroofed the church, restored a bellcote, and completed the pulpit and presenters' box in 1810. The external walls are rendered, except for the north gable which is constructed of squared rubble, all featuring raised margins and quoins of polished red sandstone, with chamfered jambs to all openings.

The original church was a 5-bay rectangular hall, with the windows enlarged from earlier lancet shapes to match the style of the 19th-century addition, now featuring timber Y-tracery. The gable-end windows are 3-light lancets: the north gable includes a heraldic roundel above inscribed "VK 1748", and the south gable has a blind oculus.

A 2-bay aisle adjoins the west side, incorporating a square, buttressed bell-tower. The west gable features stepped buttresses flanking a round-headed doorway with a fanlight, and a small square-headed window above. A blind oculus is at the gable apex. Above, a single-stage tower rises, featuring hoodmoulded, louvred openings. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet and pinnacles at the angles. An eaves cornice is present throughout, with more elaborate moulding to the 1810 west gable, along with sandstone skews and skewputts.

The interior was largely remodelled around 1960, with a screen wall now separating the 1810 aisle. Galleries have been removed, and the pulpit has been relocated. The churchyard contains mainly 18th and 19th-century stones, including a good table monument to Mary Mclellan, who died in 1697 and was the wife of John Nielson, a covenanting martyr and laird of Corsock.

The heraldic panel in the north gable has been identified as belonging to William Kennedy, abbot of Crossraguel from 1520 to 1547. The panel itself is believed to be 16th-century work, with the date 1748 incised when it was incorporated into the new church building. Three small carved oak panels, dating from the 1620s, are now housed in the Manse. The building remains in use as an ecclesiastical church.