Dalton Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 03/08/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Dalton NGR NY 11384 73986 Coordinates 311384, 573986 — J Dick Peddie, architect. Dated 1895. Romanesque revival church. Snecked bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings and heavy clasping angle buttresses. Rectangular-plan with slightly lower chancel at E, massive 2-stage square tower at E and porch placed at W end of long N wall. Round-headed openings and hood-moulded doors. TOWER: E facing door in re-entrant angle; louvered bipartite belfry openings to elevations, shafted mullions with scalloped capitals; corbelled parapet, with spouts, encloses slated thin steeple with weathervane finial. Main body of church: Single lights to bays, 3-light gable windows. Straight skews with cross finials. Slate roofs. INTERIOR: contrasting long-and-short-worked dressings and white-plastered walls; wide chancel arch; octagonal oak pulpit; open timbered roof. Situated to NW of old cemetary, and enclosed mostly by iron railings on low cope; war memorial cross to NW, finial from old parish church N gable placed between tower and porch (finial listed separately). — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Allan R Crombie and Frank Carruthers both submitted plans for enlarging old church as well as for a new building. Inscribed 1704 bell, by John Meikle of Edinburgh formerly in old church, noted in RCAHM INVENTORY, 1920 no 96.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.