Dryfesdale Parish Church, Lockerbie

Dryfesdale Parish Church in Lockerbie, designed by Frank C Carruthers and completed in 1898, is a Gothic-style parish church featuring a square tower at the southeast. The exterior is constructed of snecked bull-faced red ashlar with contrasting polished dressings.

The tower has a pair of louvred openings on each face of its off-set top stage, with angle buttresses that culminate in pinnacled shafts above a crenellated parapet, which includes a caphouse and encloses a short stone spire. The body of the church is roughly T-shaped and buttressed, with transepts aligned with the side aisles and a canted chancel flanked by vestries. The windows are mostly grouped, with stepped three-light gable windows at the gallery level. The main entrance is located in the east gable, featuring a gabletted head and flanking buttresses. The roofs are slated and finialed, topped with a prominent fleche.

Inside, the church is elaborately detailed, with a three-sided gallery and a main roof supported by tiers of square pillars. The ceilings are ribbed and vaulted, and there is a stone pulpit along with a large organ case, which houses an organ by Foster and Andrews from Hull, installed in 1905. The church also features leaded glass windows.

The churchyard contains mainly 19th-century headstones, many of which are of high quality. There is an ashlar-built boundary wall along the roadside, with square gatepiers that have moulded caps and cast-iron gates. Additionally, there is a rectangular-plan lodge with a gabled porch and round-arched windows.