Bower Parish Church And Manse

Bower Parish Church and Manse is an early 19th-century building that underwent recasting and alterations in the late 19th century. The exterior features rendered surfaces with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. The church is rectangular in shape, with a central entrance on the west gable and a window above it. The south elevation has three ground-level windows and three gallery windows, while the north elevation includes two long central windows flanked by single ground and gallery windows. All windows have shallow pointed heads and are adorned with late 19th-century two-light cusped tracery, leaded lights, and some simple stained glass. The building is topped with diamond pinnacles and pyramidal finials at each corner, as well as a birdcage bellcote at the apex of the west gable, which features a similar pyramidal cap and angle finials. The roof is covered with slate.

At the rear, there is a modern parish room.

Inside, the church has an aisled interior oriented to the east, with a lowered ceiling supported by an arcade of square wood-cased cast-iron columns. A finialled and panelled Gothic screen flanks the pulpit, and there is Gothic detailing on the panelled doors and the gallery front at the west end of the church. The pews, dating from the late 19th century, have scroll ends. The interior also features various mural memorials from the earlier and mid-19th century.