St John's United Free Church, York Road, Newton Stewart

St John's United Free Church, designed by architect Richard Park in 1878, is now used as a museum. This Gothic hall church features a tall gable facing the street and a spire to the left. It is constructed of coursed bull-faced rubble with polished cream and red sandstone dressings.

The church has five-bay buttressed aisles and an entrance gable with a pointed arch portal that includes nook shafts and four flanking asp-headed lancets. Above the portal is a three-light window with plate tracery. The buttressed aisles are adorned with five lancets. The spire is composed of three stages, with an octagonal belfry stage that rises to a polychrome banded masonry spire featuring tiny louvered lucarnes and a cross finial. There is a single-storey vestry with a piend roof, and the end skews have banded slate roofs. The building also has good cast-iron brackets for the gutter. Inside, the narthex contains carved timber blind arcading, while the main body of the church has an inserted floor and a suspended ceiling.

The boundary wall consists of low rubble walls topped with ashlar saddleback coping. The gatepiers are part-chamfered with tapered octagonal caps and a moulded cornice that supports decorative cast-iron lamp standards, one of which is truncated and the other has a lantern. The site is also enclosed by decorative cast-iron gates and railings.