Church Of Scotland, Craignair Church, Craignair Street, Dalbeattie

Peddie and Kinnear, architects, 1878-80. Symmetrical

buttressed T-plan apsidal church with tower to NW angle.

Coursed bull-faced granite with polished sandstone margins

and quoins.

3-bay nave, 2-bay gabled transepts, single bay chancel with

projecting semi-circular apse lit by 5 small lancets. All

openings pointed-arched with chamfered jambs and linked by

continuous hoodmould/string course. Main doorway to N flanked

by small paired lancets; triple lancet above transepts with

central porch on gable end flanked by lancets with cinquefoil

rose window above.

Tower in 3 stages with angle buttresses; lower 2 stages

plain, 3rd stage with paired louvered openings. Octagonal

broached spire rises to finial.

Interior: narthex with 2 doors to nave and gallery stair in

tower. Gallery to N with panelled front, supported on

cast-iron column. Organ to E transept; 1897 Forester and

Andrews. Apse to S with dado panelling and 5 stained glass

lights. Elaborately carved pulpit on raised dais. Roof ribs

supported on stone corbels.

Low ashlar wall with cast-iron railings; good sandstone

gatepiers with cast-iron lamp brackets.