Ormiston Parish Church, Main Street, Ormiston

Ormiston Parish Church, built in 1938 by T Aikman Swan, is a Scottish Arts and Crafts style church with later additions that are harled at the rear. The exterior features squared and snecked cream and pink stone with yellow ashlar dressings, including a base course and cornice, and has a square pattern of leaded glazing. The roof is covered with Westmorland slates.

The church has a six-bay nave with transepts that project to the east and west in the outer bays to the north. There is a gabled porch in the outer south bay of the west elevation and a canted stairblock from the outer south bay of the east elevation. The tall lancet windows have deep ashlar surrounds in a Gothic style, and the side elevations are divided by buttresses.

The south gabled elevation features a wide doorway at the center with a roll-moulded surround and ogival ornament on the lintel, deep-set two-leaf doors, and small lights flanking the doorway with mannered surrounds, along with a lancet window above. The porch on the west elevation has a doorway with a roll-moulded surround and a playful lintel, an arrow slit in the gable head, and higher eaves that step down via the porch to the lower eaves of four lancet-windowed bays on the left.

The stairblock on the east elevation has a small rectangular window on three faces, following the stair, and features a piend roof with a gabled bellcote. The flanking eaves step down as previously described. Each transept has a lancet window to the south and gabled ends to the east and west, with a stack rising from the northwest corner of the west transept, featuring rounded angles.

There is a low single-storey, harled, piend-roofed addition to the northwest of the church, which includes a doorway and window set in the re-entrant angle with the west transept. The retaining walls are made of rubble and harled materials, featuring two driveway entrances with simple wrought-iron gates that incorporate the initials KMW.

Inside, the church has a central aisle and a gallery at the south end with a simple panelled parapet and a pair of two-leaf doors below. The walls are whitewashed with a panelled dado at the chancel. The ceiling features a barrow-vault with timber trabeation and cornice. Wide pointed archways separate the nave from the chancel and transepts. The interior includes panelled pitch pine pews, a polygonal pulpit with a stair, and a communion table, as well as a decorative stone font. There are three stained glass windows in the chancel, dating from around 1840 and brought from the church at West Byres, depicting Moses, Jesus Christ, and St Paul.