Newton Church, Newton Church Road, Newton Village

Newton Church is a T-plan building dating to 1742, with alterations undertaken in 1890 and an external stairway added around 1748. It adjoins a Session House and features droved coursed rubble walls with later smooth ashlar porches. The building is detailed with long and short rusticated quoins and a moulded cornice, and is skew gabled throughout.

The west elevation presents a gabled entrance porch with a planked arch-headed door set in a receding archway with hood-mould, flanked by modern notice boards. The porch features triangular skews with a stone cross at the apex. An adjoining lean-to porch contains arch-headed narrow windows with architraved surrounds to each flank, and triangular skews with pedimented skewputts. The main church wall behind displays a central arch-headed window with prominent margins and keystone, plain skews with squared putts, and a gablehead bellcote dated 1742 and 1973 with a corbelled base, rectangular openings revealing the original bell, moulded cornice and an ogival top surmounted by a pommel. A square window with projecting margins appears to the left return.

The north elevation features a central entrance porch with a door on the right return. Square windows with projecting margins flank the entrance, with a wheel window to the first floor above. A triangular louvred vent sits in the gablehead. An L-shaped external stone stair with shaped copes and end capitals leads to a two-storey square extension with an entrance door and small glazed fanlight above. A lean-to single storey extension with an entrance door occupies the re-entrant angle, with a tall chimney stack to the right return. The extension features a square window to the ground floor and an arched window to the first floor on the left return, with a small chimney on the apex.

The east elevation contains a skew gabled porch off centre to the right, with a round arched window, and a smaller square porch with entrance door to the left return. The main church wall displays a round arched window with projecting keystones and margins to the centre, plain skews with squared putts and a gablehead finial. A small square window appears to the ground floor on the right return.

The south elevation is dominated by the Session House, which features a pair of Gothic lancet windows and a square sundial dated 1742 with a projecting rounded pediment above. A chimney stack with projecting margins, neck cope and a single replacement can rises to the gablehead. The Session House skews are plain with scrolled putts, and tombstones are inset to the returns. Paired round arched windows flank the Session House.

Windows throughout are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case, with a wheel window to the north gable, arched sash and case to the east porch, and arched fixed square quarry windows to the south and west elevations. The Session House gable end contains 2-pane timber Gothic lancets. The roof is piended slate with zinc ridging, flashing and valleys. Most rainwater goods have been replaced with grey plastic.

The interior features plastered segmental groin vaulting with pilastered and heavily corniced woodwork. The Colliers' panels, dated 1732 and 1737 and salvaged from the old church, display marbled framing with small pilasters and arabesques on a black background, featuring names in gold leaf and trade implement designs. Seating was rearranged in 1819. The interior contains a pair of circa 1830 Grecian Ormulu pendants. Following remodelling in 1890, the Session House became an apse with an oak pulpit, font and chair from Lady Gardiner. An 1897 reading lectern, presented by the Women's Guild and Kirk Session, bears the inscription "COME UNTO ME ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVILY LADEN" (Matthew 11.20).