Reay Parish Church

Reay Parish Church, built in 1739 with alterations and re-seating in 1933, features a T-plan layout and is harled with ashlar dressings and margins. The south-facing frontage has seven bays, a projecting square tower at the east gable, and a large Y-tracery window added in 1933 at the west gable. There are doorways in bays 2 and 6, with the southeast doorway blocked. An oculus is located in the central bay near the wallhead, with a rectangular recess below it. The windows are checked for shutters and have 12-pane fixed glazing. A forestair leads to a first-floor door on the south face of the tower, which has rectangular openings on each face of the belfry that rises above the church roof ridge and terminates with a pyramidal roof topped by an apex ball finial. The rear T-wing features a gable end forestair leading to a gallery, a blocked ground floor entrance to a burial vault with fluted decorative detailing on the architraves, and a small later vestry in the northeast re-entrant angle. The church has ball finials, flat skews, and slate roofs.

Inside, there is a hexagonal pulpit from around 1739 with panelled sides, moulded coping, a Corinthian pilastered back-board, and a hexagonal sounding board with a moulded and modillioned cornice, positioned near the centre of the south wall. The east and west aisles have seating from 1933, and there is a long panelled communion table in the north aisle, which features a panelled and pilastered arched entrance and a simple panelled front to the Sandside gallery. A modern glazed partition closes off the area below the gallery. The church also contains various 19th and early 20th-century mural monuments, particularly those dedicated to the Pilkingtons of Sandside House.

The church is enclosed by a coped rubble wall, with simple ashlar gate piers flanking the pedestrian entrance.