William Cree Memorial Church, Kirkburn Road, Kirkburn

The William Cree Memorial Church, located on Kirkburn Road in Kirkburn, was built in the early 19th century and remodelled in 1921 by JM Dick Peddie. Stained glass windows were added in 1929 by Douglas Strachan. The church is a simple, rectangular Arts and Crafts hall church with a forestair leading to a lower entrance porch on the northeast side, and a timber bellcote with scrolled brackets on the northeast gablehead.

The building is constructed of local coursed whinstone rubble, with contrasting whinstone quoins and dressings. Later alterations incorporated polished sandstone ashlar dressings, particularly visible in the southwest window. The roof is swept with broad eaves.

The northeast elevation features a whinstone wall, running parallel to the gable end, with ashlar copes flanking a flight of steps leading to an advanced porch. The porch has a pitched roof with bell-cast eaves, projecting quoins, and an arched door surround constructed from heavily tooled ashlar voussoirs that resemble thin slate, along with impost quoins in the left return. The doorway has a pair of timber boarded doors and a semi-circular fanlight with fish-scale glazing above. A gabled end of the porch includes a tall, lancet window with a slate drip sill and tooled voussoirs. The main church's gable rises to the rear. A timber and slated bellcote canopy, supported by heavy scrolled timber brackets, sits atop the roof ridge, but the bell is now missing.

The southeast elevation has four tripartite windows set close under the eaves, with sloped slate sills. A moulded and corniced ashlar panel inscribed "W & I C AD 1921" (C denoting Cree) is centered beneath the windows. Steps lead to a recessed entrance porch on the right return.

The southwest (rear) elevation has a gabled end with a central, round-arched Norman-style window (added in 1929), framed by tabbed ashlar quoins and uniform voussoirs. The inner surround is chamfered, with a drip sill leading to a deeply set stained glass window. A small whinstone boundary wall adjoins the left side, creating a small enclosure.

The northwest elevation displays four tripartite windows with a central buttress; a tall arched window is located in the lower porch on the extreme left. The bellcote canopy extends from the main ridgeline.

Most windows are tripartite, timber-framed with diamond quarry glazing (often referred to as Tudor glazing) and pronounced astragals, with fixed outer windows and an opening central window. The fanlight above the entrance door features fish-scale glazing, and narrow arched lights, matching the style and materials of the building, are present on the porch returns. The pitched slate roof has bell-cast, overhanging eaves supported by advanced putts, with stone ridging tiles and moulded concrete verges, as well as lead flashing to the porch. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods are present, and there are no chimney stacks.

The interior is currently disused and being converted to residential accommodation. A reused lintel on an interior door bears the inscription “House for Praye” (incorrectly spelled) dated 1614.