Dalbeattie Park Church, Mill Street, Dalbeattie

Datestones to E front, built 1842, rebuilt 1881. Francis

Armstrong of Dumfries, architect, 1881.

Hall church with tower to SE and hall to N. Bull-faced

granite walling, buttressed. All openings round-arched;

doorway with fanlight and double-leaf panelled doors flanked

by pairs of narrow lights, raised bandcourse over door. 3-bay

nave with single windows, rose window with plate tracery to W

with low projecting vestry.

Buttressed tower in 4-stages divided by raised bandcourses.

Round-arched louvered openings to 4th stage with corbelled

cornice rising to broached spire with weathervane; slate

roofs.

Low coped granite wall supports cast-iron railings. Pair of

square coped granite gatepiers, cast-iron gates.

Interior: decorated narthex with round-arched niches gives

access to aisleless nave and by paired corner stairs to deep

E gallery supported on cast-iron columns and with arcaded,

panelled front. Central pulpit transposed from former UP

Church, Dalbeattie; modern communion table and lectern. 1920

organ behind pulpit and flanked by round-arched doors to

small projecting vestry. All doors and rose window with

moulded plaster hoods. Coffered ceiling with elaborate

plaster cornices.

Single-storey bull-faced granite hall to SE with 2 Y-tracery

lancets in gable to Mill Street flanks partially rendered.