Dalbeattie Park Church, Mill 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 83445 61354 Coordinates 283445, 561354 — Datestones to E front, built 1842, rebuilt 1881. Francis Armstrong of Dumfries, architect, 1881. Hall church with tower to SE and hall to N. Bull-faced granite walling, buttressed. All openings round-arched; doorway with fanlight and double-leaf panelled doors flanked by pairs of narrow lights, raised bandcourse over door. 3-bay nave with single windows, rose window with plate tracery to W with low projecting vestry. Buttressed tower in 4-stages divided by raised bandcourses. Round-arched louvered openings to 4th stage with corbelled cornice rising to broached spire with weathervane; slate roofs. Low coped granite wall supports cast-iron railings. Pair of square coped granite gatepiers, cast-iron gates. Interior: decorated narthex with round-arched niches gives access to aisleless nave and by paired corner stairs to deep E gallery supported on cast-iron columns and with arcaded, panelled front. Central pulpit transposed from former UP Church, Dalbeattie; modern communion table and lectern. 1920 organ behind pulpit and flanked by round-arched doors to small projecting vestry. All doors and rose window with moulded plaster hoods. Coffered ceiling with elaborate plaster cornices. Single-storey bull-faced granite hall to SE with 2 Y-tracery lancets in gable to Mill Street flanks partially rendered. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Former free church. More elaborate hall buildings planned but never executed due to lack of funds.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.