Dalton Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Church.
Dalton Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- standing-niche-foxglove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
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).
Detailed Attributes
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