Temple Parish Church

Temple Parish Church, designed by Thomas Brown of Uphall in 1832, is a single-storey, T-plan church built in the Tudor Gothic style. It features tooled coursed sandstone with stugged dressings that are droved to the margins. The church has a base course, a moulded eaves course, diagonal corner buttresses topped with gabletted finials, and traceried pointed arch openings with hoodmoulds and simple label-stops, along with chamfered reveals.

The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, is symmetrical and gabled, with a doorway at the center leading to a two-leaf panelled timber door, although this is obscured by a later 20th-century timber conservatory. Above the doorway is a window, and at the apex, there is a square plan birdcage bellcote featuring moulded corbels and trefoil-headed arches on each elevation, topped with a weathervane finial.

The south elevation is also symmetrical and consists of three bays, with windows in each buttressed bay. The east elevation mirrors this symmetry, featuring a gabled design with a central window and a carved fleur-de-lis finial at the apex. The north elevation is asymmetrical with three bays; it has an advanced gabled bay at the center with a window, a window to the left, and a timber door to the right of the left return. There is a panelled timber door to the left and a window to the right of the right return, with a blank flanking bay to the left and a single window to the right.

The church has a grey slate roof with a lead ridge and stone skews, along with a coped stone gablehead stack on the north side. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

The interior was not seen in 1998.

The church is accompanied by gates, gatepiers, and boundary walls. The gatepiers are polished sandstone and octagonal with pyramidal caps, and there are decorative cast iron gates, although some parts are missing. A tooled rubble wall with flat coping curves from the south to the north.