Temple Hurpain takes its name from the man who rebuilt it in the 17th century, but its origional name might have been Temple Hurpan. The latter name is now applied to a strange, late church-like building added on to the east end of Temple Dowling. The west jamb of its doorway in the south wall is part of the antae of the older church. Temple Hurpain is quite a small church, measuring 22 feet in length and 12 feet in width. It has a roundheaded south doorway and a large, plain, east window. The square niche over the doorway was probably intended for inscribing of some sort. There was a cupboard or ambry for sacred vessels in the south wall and an inscribed grave slab, partly visible in the interior of the north wall, appears to have been reused as a building stone in the origional church. This was read as : [or d] O DITHRAID (a prayer for Dithraid) by Petrie in the last century. Some nine years after it was built it was for some reason in need of repairs. It is recorded that in 1698 part of this church was reconstructed and used as a place of worship by Protestants. Some forty years later it was described as being "in a state of ruin".