St John's Town Of Dalry Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Church.

St John's Town Of Dalry Parish Church

WRENN ID
secret-marble-kestrel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NX 618 811
Coordinates
55.10586, -4.1667
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St John's Town of Dalry Parish Church is a T-plan, buttressed neo-Gothic church designed by architect William McAndlish in 1832. The church features a three-stage tower at the south front, constructed of rubble walling with contrasting polished sandstone buttresses and chamfered margins.

The south front has five bays, with a central tower flanked by lancet windows. All the windows are pointed arched, featuring hoodmoulds, timber Y-tracery, and small-pane glazing. The north transept includes a large moulded pointed-arch opening that now has a timber and glass infill, forming a porch. The buttresses rise to pinnacles at the corners, and there is a moulded eaves cornice, slate roofs, stepped sandstone skews, and pinnacles at the gable apexes. The three-stage buttressed tower has a moulded string-course between its stages, a door at the ground level with a quatrefoil moulded panel above, lancet windows on the first stage, and louvred openings on the third stage. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet and pinnacles at the angles.

Inside, the church features a panel-fronted gallery on three sides, supported by cast-iron columns. An elaborate pulpit has an ogee "dome" as a tester, and the communion table is dated 1923. The church is surrounded by a walled graveyard that contains some 18th-century stone.

Local climate

St John's Town Of Dalry Parish Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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