Tinwald Parish Church

Tinwald Parish Church, dated 1765 on the east gable, is a plain, rectangular-plan, four-bay church. It underwent alterations and additions by James Barbour of Dumfries between 1898 and 1899, which included a gabled porch added to the east gable and a lean-to vestry at the west end of the north wall. The original door on the west gable has been replaced with a tall lancet, and the windows in the bays are now pointed-headed bipartites. The church is constructed of squared red rubble with ashlar dressings. It features two shouldered doors leading to the porch, a bipartite window on the west wall of the vestry, and a plain birdcage bellcote with a ball finial over the west gable, which houses a 17th century Dutch bell. There is also a ball finial over the east gable, a central axial ventilator, a main eaves cornice, and a wall-head stack above the vestry, all topped with slate roofs.

The interior, also designed by Barbour, includes a hammer beam roof and pointed alcoves on the west gable flanking four leaded windows by Gordon Webster, which were inserted between 1937 and 1978. The churchyard has an irregular plan and is mostly enclosed by rubble-built walls, with square red ashlar gatepiers at the southwest. It contains many interesting 17th to 19th century stone monuments, along with a Charteris enclosure against the north wall of the church.