Church of Scotland, Craignair Church, Craignair Street, Dalbeattie

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/11/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Burgh Dalbeattie NGR NX 83065 61112 Coordinates 283065, 561112 — Peddie and Kinnear, architects, 1878-80. Symmetrical buttressed T-plan apsidal church with tower to NW angle. Coursed bull-faced granite with polished sandstone margins and quoins. 3-bay nave, 2-bay gabled transepts, single bay chancel with projecting semi-circular apse lit by 5 small lancets. All openings pointed-arched with chamfered jambs and linked by continuous hoodmould/string course. Main doorway to N flanked by small paired lancets; triple lancet above transepts with central porch on gable end flanked by lancets with cinquefoil rose window above. Tower in 3 stages with angle buttresses; lower 2 stages plain, 3rd stage with paired louvered openings. Octagonal broached spire rises to finial. Interior: narthex with 2 doors to nave and gallery stair in tower. Gallery to N with panelled front, supported on cast-iron column. Organ to E transept; 1897 Forester and Andrews. Apse to S with dado panelling and 5 stained glass lights. Elaborately carved pulpit on raised dais. Roof ribs supported on stone corbels. Low ashlar wall with cast-iron railings; good sandstone gatepiers with cast-iron lamp brackets.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.