Auchtertool Parish Church

Auchtertool Parish Church is a rectangular-plan plain Gothic church that was reconstructed in 1833, incorporating earlier fabric. The church features a lean-to north aisle added by Rev William Stevenson between 1905 and 1906. It has two battlemented porches and an octagonal ashlar birdcage bellcote. The structure is built of squared rubble with heavily dressed porches, and it has droved ashlar margins and voussoirs. The original building has Tudor-arched openings, while the north aisle and porches have pointed-arch openings, with chamfered reveals and stone tracery.

The south elevation is symmetrical, featuring a window in the center bay flanked by the battlemented porches, each with a panelled timber door, and additional windows in the outer bays. The west elevation has a gabled design with a central window and a corbelled, finialled belfry that houses a bell dated 1887 at the gablehead. The north elevation includes a lean-to aisle on the right with three windows, the center one featuring a keystone dated 1906, and a lower set-back lean-to porch on the left with a boarded timber door below a keystone dated 1898, along with a window on the outer left. The east elevation has a full-width, coped and battered deep base course, possibly from earlier fabric, leading to a traceried window and the Forbes family coat of arms in the gablehead.

The interior contains fixed timber pews, some of which are box pews, and a boarded dado. There is a scallop-capitalled Romanesque arcade in the north aisle, which features classical mural memorials to Rev Walter Welsh and James Watt, a farmer of Balbarton. The raised chancel includes a carved Gothic screen and pulpit, an octagonal stone font, and a fine stencilled pipe organ and console located in the north. The east window is traceried and depicts Saints Andrew and John, serving as a memorial to Major General Liddell, while the southeast window features a World War I memorial with a plaque for World War II. The church is roofed with slate and has ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts.