Church Of Scotland And War Memorial, St Medan's Church, Drummore

St Medan's Church is a Gothic church of 1903, situated in Stair Street, Drummore. Built as a United Free Church, it replaced an earlier Free Church of 1843 that stood opposite. The church united with the Old Parish Church of Kirkmaiden in 1931, becoming the principal place of worship, though occasional services continue at Kirkmaiden. The building remains in use as a Church of Scotland church.

The church is of rectangular plan with a three-stage tower to the north-west angle and a vestry to the south. The exterior is constructed in rubble, squared and snecked on the north elevation, with red sandstone ashlar dressings. The deeply pitched roof is covered in small grey slates with terracotta tile ridging and two iron ridge ventilators. An eaves course runs around the building. Windows are pointed-arched with leaded coloured glazing, hoodmoulds, and chamfered arrisses to all openings. The north elevation and tower have cusped heads to the windows. Coped skews define the roofline, with a gabletted skewputt to the north-east. A Celtic cross finial marks the apex of the north gable.

The north elevation (facing Stair Street) features a pointed-arched doorway at the centre with double-leaf boarded door and rebated margin, flanked by windows. A stepped three-light window marks the gallery level, and a very small blinded window sits in the gablehead. The tower projects from the right side of this elevation.

The tower is three-staged, with an open belfry at the third stage. It is slightly battered at the base with a string course between the first and second stages. The first stage has a window to the north and an enlarged doorway to the west. The second stage has windows to the north and west faces, and a window to the south face raised above the pitch of the church roof. The belfry stage has a coped base with two-light openings to each face, each with a colonnette mullion and flanking corbel details. An eaves course and pyramidal roof with modern finial crown the tower; the finial replaces a former taller slated version.

The west elevation contains five bays separated by dividing and outer buttresses, each with a window. The east elevation has six bays with dividing buttresses and an outer left buttress, with a window to each bay. The south elevation features a round window at gallery level and a piended vestry adjoined at the centre and left. The vestry has a Tudor-arched doorway to the left with a fanlit boarded door, a bipartite window to the right, and windows to the left and centre to the south. A lean-to structure projects in the re-entrant angle to the east with a door to the south and a slit to the east. An ashlar gablehead stack with three cans rises from the church.

The interior is arranged in five bays with painted plaster walls, cornice, and timber dadoes. The timber kingpost roof has braces springing from corbels with additional vertical struts displaying cusped detailing. Windows have hoodmoulds. The pulpit stands to the south with steps from the right, backed by a timber screen featuring cusped panelling and outer finials. A door to the vestry and an aumbry door are incorporated into this screen. The interior furnishings include a timber communion table (undated), a font of 1951, and a lectern of 1954. A small gallery sits to the north with outer brackets and a gallery door to the east. Below the gallery sits a timber mullioned and transomed vestibule screen with leaded coloured glazing, with doors to left and right. A stained glass window in the outer right bay of the east wall commemorates James Morrison (died 1951). The church contains timber pews and two marble mural tablets.

Ancillary spaces include a vestry to the south-west and a session house to the south-east. A continuous stair to the east of the vestibule provides access to the gallery. A room at the first stage of the tower to the west contains a ladder leading to the second stage.

Boundary walls of rubble with red sandstone ashlar saddleback coping enclose the property to the north, with raised sections linked by railings. Unusual decorative cast-iron railings and similarly detailed two-leaf gates are present. Rubble coped walls bound the property to the east, west, and south.

A Celtic cross war memorial, dating to circa 1919, stands to the north-east of the church. It is constructed of bull-faced pink granite with the Celtic cross set upon a pedestal. The north, east, and west faces of the pedestal are polished and inscribed with names. A polished panel on the base to the north is inscribed "Erected by the inhabitants to the memory of the brave men of this parish who fell in the Great War 1914 - 18". A bronze plaque below, inscribed "1939 - 1945", records additional names from the Second World War.