Dalbeattie Park Church, Mill Street, Dalbeattie is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Church.

Dalbeattie Park Church, Mill Street, Dalbeattie

WRENN ID
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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
Address
Dalbeattie Park Church, Mill Street, Dalbeattie, DG5 4HE
OS grid reference
NX 834 613
Coordinates
54.93321, -3.82062
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dalbeattie Park Church, located on Mill Street in Dalbeattie, was built in 1842 and rebuilt in 1881, designed by architect Francis Armstrong of Dumfries. This hall church features a tower on the southeast and a hall to the north, constructed with bull-faced granite walling and buttressed for support. All openings are round-arched, including the main doorway which has a fanlight and double-leaf panelled doors, flanked by pairs of narrow lights, with a raised bandcourse above. The church has a three-bay nave with single windows and a west rose window that features plate tracery, along with a low projecting vestry.

The buttressed tower is divided into four stages by raised bandcourses, with round-arched louvered openings at the fourth stage, topped with a corbelled cornice that leads to a broached spire adorned with a weathervane. The roofs are covered with slate. Surrounding the church is a low coped granite wall that supports cast-iron railings, and there is a pair of square coped granite gatepiers with cast-iron gates.

Inside, the church features a decorated narthex with round-arched niches that provide access to the aisleless nave and to a deep eastern gallery, which is supported by cast-iron columns and has an arcaded, panelled front. The central pulpit has been transposed from the former United Presbyterian Church in Dalbeattie, accompanied by a modern communion table and lectern. A 1920 organ is located behind the pulpit, flanked by round-arched doors leading to a small projecting vestry. All doors and the rose window have moulded plaster hoods, and the ceiling is coffered with elaborate plaster cornices. Additionally, there is a single-storey bull-faced granite hall to the southeast, featuring two Y-tracery lancets in the gable facing Mill Street, which is partially rendered.

Local climate

Dalbeattie Park Church, Mill Street, Dalbeattie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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