St John's Town Of Dalry Parish Church

William McAndlish, architect, 1832. T-plan buttressed

neo-Gothic church with 3-stage tower to S front. Rubble

walling with contrasting polished sandstone buttresses and

chamfered margins.

5-bay S front with central tower flanked by lancets. All

windows pointed arched with hoodmoulds, timber Y-tracery and

small-pane glazing. N transept with large moulded

pointed-arch opening (now with timber and glass infil)

forming porch. Buttresses rise to pinnacles at angles.

Moulded eaves cornice, slate roofs, stepped sandstone skews,

pinnacles at gable apexes. 3-stage buttressed tower with

moulded string-course between stages. Door to ground with

quatrefoil moulded panel above; lancet windows to 1st stage,

louvred openings to 3rd. Embattled parapet with pinnacles at

angles.

INTERIOR: panel-fronted gallery to 3 sides supported on

cast-iron columns. Elaborate pulpit with ogee "dome" as

tester. Communion table dated 1923.

Walled graveyard with some 18th century stone.