Girthon Parish Church, Church Street, Gatehouse Of Fleet

Girthon Parish Church, located on Church Street in Gatehouse of Fleet, was built in 1818 as a hall church and underwent alterations in 1894, with the tower and apse added in 1896. The church features a tower at the west gable that rises behind the apse. Its flanks are harled, and it has rusticated bull-faced granite quoins on the hall. The tower is constructed with polished sandstone quoins and squared rubble walling.

The church has three bays and is distinguished by tall bipartite round-headed mullioned and transomed windows that have rusticated square-headed granite margins. The west tower is three stages high, with a band course separating the stages. The third stage includes bipartite round-headed louvered openings beneath a hood mould. The tower is topped with a corbelled parapet featuring angle bartizans and a squat pyramidal spire. The semi-circular apse, which abuts the tower to the west, has a lower stage made of rubble and an upper stage of droved ashlar with square-headed lights. The eaves are corbelled, and the roofs are covered with slate.

To the right of the tower, there is a square-plan porch made of coursed rubble, which has a corbelled embattled parapet. The margins, angles, and parapet of the porch are made of polished red sandstone, and it features a roll-moulded square-headed doorway with a double-leaf panelled door. Inside, the church has a simple design with a gallery supported by cast-iron columns.

The church is complemented by decorative cast- and wrought-iron lamp standards, although the lamps are missing. These standards are set on bull-faced granite piers with pyramidal caps, flanking two-leaf cast-iron gates. The boundary walls along Church Street are made of whinstone rubble with sandstone coping and are topped with decorative cast- and wrought-iron railings.