Reformed Presbyterian Church, Dalrymple Street, Stranraer

The Reformed Presbyterian Church on Dalrymple Street in Stranraer was built between 1824 and 1825 and features a symmetrical rectangular plan with an accompanying graveyard. The church has a painted render façade facing Dalrymple Street and is constructed from whinstone rubble on the sides. To the right, there is a gabled church hall added in 1898.

The entrance elevation of the original church includes a central entrance with steps leading up to a doorpiece that has pilasters and a dentilled cornice. The entrance features a two-leaf timber boarded door with a split letterbox fanlight above. On either side of the entrance are flanking windows with consoled cornices and margins.

The south elevation consists of five bays. There are single windows at both the ground and first floors in the outer left bay, with a door located to the inner left. The next two bays also contain single windows at both levels, while the outer right bay has a single window at the ground floor.

The 1898 church hall has a base course and painted margins around its openings. It features a rusticated strip quoin on the outer right side only and hoodmoulds above the openings on that side. The central entrance is arched, with a two-leaf boarded timber door and a fanlight above. Flanking round-arched windows are present, along with a pair of round-arched windows aligned above the central doorway and an oculus in the gablehead. The hall has 8-pane timber windows with border glazing and a grey piended roof.

Inside the 1824-5 section, the church features a mahogany timber interior. There are cast-iron railings surrounding the pulpit, fluted columns supporting a domed canopy with an acorn finial. The ground floor has timber doors and ingle windows, while the first floor has arched windows. A rounded gallery overlooks the nave, which has three windows at both the ground and first floors. The ceiling displays decorative plasterwork, and there is a timber entrance porch with brackets leading to the church hall.

To the south of the church is a small graveyard. The site is enclosed by a rubble boundary wall with timber gates to the south and square-plan gatepiers located to the left of the church.