Church Of Scotland, Craignair Church, Craignair Street, Dalbeattie

Craignair Church, designed by architects Peddie and Kinnear between 1878 and 1880, is a symmetrical T-plan church with buttresses and a tower at the northwest angle. The building is constructed from coursed bull-faced granite, featuring polished sandstone margins and quoins.

The church has a three-bay nave, two-bay gabled transepts, and a single bay chancel with a projecting semi-circular apse that is illuminated by five small lancets. All openings are pointed-arched with chamfered jambs and are connected by a continuous hoodmould and string course. The main doorway is located to the north and is flanked by small paired lancets. Above the transepts is a triple lancet window, with a central porch on the gable end that is flanked by lancets and features a cinquefoil rose window above.

The tower is divided into three stages, with angle buttresses. The lower two stages are plain, while the third stage includes paired louvered openings. An octagonal broached spire rises to a finial.

Inside, there is a narthex with two doors leading to the nave and a gallery stair located in the tower. The gallery to the north has a panelled front and is supported by a cast-iron column. An organ by Forester and Andrews from 1897 is situated in the east transept. The apse to the south features dado panelling and five stained glass lights. There is an elaborately carved pulpit on a raised dais, and the roof ribs are supported on stone corbels.

The church is enclosed by a low ashlar wall with cast-iron railings, and it has attractive sandstone gatepiers with cast-iron lamp brackets.