Glengairn Parish Church

Glengairn Parish Church is a single-story, two-bay church built around 1800. It is a simple example of a Church of Scotland church serving a rural parish and is located to the north of the River Gairn, northeast of Dalphuil House, a former manse. The exterior is harled with a tripartite pointed arch window to the west elevation, the central section being blind. A dressed granite bellcote with a bell sits at the gable apex. The south elevation features two large semicircular arched windows. The east elevation (facing the porch) has a central, shouldered stack flanked by narrow Caernarvon windows, one of which is blind. A small oculus is positioned to the right of the north (rear) porch elevation. Dressed granite skews are present. The windows contain 3, 4, 9-pane, and multi-pane fixed timber glazing, with some panes pivoting horizontally. The roof is covered in grey slate with stone ridges. Tooled granite gable stacks with assorted clay cans are visible, along with cast-iron rhones and rhone pipes.

The interior is simply whitewashed and features timber pews and a quatrefoil-detailed communion table. The church replaced an earlier parish church at Bridge of Gairn. A memorial plaque on the south elevation commemorates the Reverend Robert Neil, who served as parish minister for 44 years until 1891. The building’s character is defined by the combination of classical and Gothic windows and the decorative bellcote.