Situated within the gentle parkland of the ruined Poltalloch House (designed and built by William Burn in 1849), St Columba’s was conceived as a private chapel but built as a church with congregation and incumbent Episcopal rector.

Erected in 1852-54, to a design by William Cundy of London in Early English Gothic Revival style with leafy carvings and pointed arches, it possesses a complete set of stained glass windows from the workshop of William Wailes. It has an octagonal pulpit in Purbeck marble font, a fine pipe organ by Gray & Davison, dated 1855, but sadly currently not functioning, and two Whitechapel Foundry bells in its belfry. There are also three 16th century timber choir stalls, of unknown origin, in the nave that have been adapted for use as misericord seats.