Knockbain Munlochy Parish Church and Boundary Wall

A Maitland and Sons, 1886. Rectangular-plan Gothic style coursed rubble red sandstone church with gabled shallow entrance porch to the southwest and small rectangular-plan vestry adjoined to the northeast.

The principal 3-bay elevation has a slightly advanced centre bay including an advanced gabled and pointed arch doorway flanked by two small hoodmoulded lancet windows forming part of a continuous band course that extends the width of this elevation. Above the porch are 3 tall lancet windows (the taller central window has simple plate tracery) resting on a cill course, all linked by a continuous hoodmould. There is a small glazed rose window directly above. There is a Gothic style stone belfry at the apex which it is surmounted by a metal decorative weather vane with quatrefoil centre detail. The outer bays are slightly recessed and have a large lancet window set within a blind Gothic arch. There are distinctive pinnacled and tiered buttresses flanking the outer bays.

The north and south side elevations are 6 bays with long vertical pointed arch gallery windows. There are two stained glass pointed arched windows to the east gable.

The windows are glazed predominantly in leaded glass; some have triangular shaped coloured glass to their margins. The slated gabled roof has 3 triangular louvred roof vents to either side. There is a smaller rectangular-plan , meeting hall and vestry (currently used as a kitchen, 2014) to the rear, accessed both externally and from a hall linking it to the main worship space.

The interior was seen in 2014, and is galleried on three sides and has a good decorative scheme in the Gothic revival style. The entrance leads into a vestibule with stairs to left and right giving access to the timber panelled gallery above. The main space has timber floors and contains pitch pine tongue and groove pews facing a large raised timber panelled pulpit flanked by dog-leg stairs to either side. The pulpit has Gothic detailing and is framed by a decorative timber sounding board with trefoil arch and a pointed arch plaster hood. The gallery contains recessed trefoil detailing to each panel and is supported on 3 sides by slender Doric columns at the ground floor; there are Corinthian columns at the second floor carrying wide span pointed arches. The timber panelled roof is diagonally patterned and has decorative flower and star shaped vents along its apex.

The stained glass windows flanking the pulpit date to the mid-late 20th century. The former vestry is to rear of the east wall. It has timber panelled doors, timber tongue and groove panels up to dado rail and a simple cornice.

Low, course rubble boundary wall to west with rubble copes.