St Ninian's Church And Gatepiers, Bigton

St Ninian's Church and Gatepiers in Bigton was built in 1905 and is a symmetrical hall church with five by two bays and a gabled entrance porch on the south side. The church features harled pointed and lined rubble walls, accented with stugged and droved yellow sandstone ashlar dressings.

The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, is a single storey with a three-bay symmetrical porch that projects at ground level. The central bay is advanced and contains a two-leaf vertically boarded round-arched timber entrance door, topped by a three-pane fanlight that rises into the gable, which breaks the eaves. Flanking this door are round-arched windows with five-pane timber fixed lights, with cement rendered infill in the side windows. Above the porch, there are a pair of round-arched blinded windows in the gable, along with a narrow blind round-arched window in the gablehead. At the apex, there is a gabled ashlar belfry featuring a bell in a round-arched opening on a rectangular plinth.

The east and west side elevations consist of five bays that are regularly fenestrated, each with tall round-arched windows that contain thirteen-pane timber fixed lights. The north elevation features a harled vestry with a piend roof, projecting at ground level and containing four-pane timber sash and case windows. The gable matches the south gable but has a single flue ashlar stack at the apex.

The church has small-pane glazing for the fixed lights and four-pane timber sash and case windows, all featuring Y-traceried upper panes. The roof is covered with purple grey slate, and the building has droved ashlar skew copes that are stepped at the median, along with gabletted and bracketted skewputts.

Inside, the vestibule has a tiled floor and vertically boarded timber wainscoting. There are a pair of two-leaf, four-panel inner entrance doors leading to the hall, which was subdivided in 1996. The hall features timber fittings, including vertically boarded wainscoting and pews, as well as a panelled pulpit centered on the north wall, fronted by a balustrade with ball finialled, stop-chamfered newels. To the left is a four-panel vestry door. The ceiling is timber lined with exposed rafters that rest on stone corbels.

The boundary wall surrounding the kirkyard is made of random rubble and includes square-capped cement rendered and lined gatepiers centered on the south elevation. There is an additional gate at the northeast corner of the kirkyard, which also has capped square gatepiers.