The memorial stone for the new church was laid by Mrs Ramsay of Kidalton on 1 October 1897.

[1] It was built to replace the former churches at Lagavulin as the congregation in Port Ellen had grown.

It is a single storey church in the Arts and Crafts style built on a rectangular plan.

It was built to the designs of the architect Arthur George Sydney Mitchell.

There are three stained glass windows: An organ was gifted in 1945 in memory of Pilot Officer Alastair MacTaggart and five others of the parish who were killed on active service during the Second World War.