A Rare Octagonal Church - Dreghorn and Springside Parish

Octagonal buildings are rare and churches of this shape are even rarer. Dreghorn Church is an octagon, supposedly built this way at the whim of an Earl of Eglinton who got the idea from the continent. John Wesley is said to have favoured this shape and a legend says that buildings this shape were protected from the Devil as he had no corners to hide in. This is now the parish church for Dreghorn & Springside. The old Dreghorn Mortuary survives as the Kirk Session House.