Dores Parish Church

Dores Parish Church was built in 1828 and underwent alterations and re-casting in the later 19th century. The church is rectangular and oriented east-west, constructed of rubble with an ashlar base course, featuring tooled and polished ashlar margins and dressings. It has original pointed-headed entrances with recessed doors and deeply chamfered architraves in the outer bays, and double-leaf panelled doors that display Gothic detailing.

There are four long pointed-headed windows from the later 19th century that rise through the wallhead into finialled gablets, with similar windows at the rear. The east and west gables feature single original hoodmoulded pointed-headed windows with Y-tracery, and the glazing is of lattice-pane style. A later 19th century finialled Gothic bellcote is located at the apex of the east gable, with triangular skews and shaped skewputts from the same period. The roof is slate with a stone ridge.

Inside, the church has been re-cast to the west with later 19th century fittings. It features an off-centre octagonal cusped panelled pulpit and back-board, accompanied by a short stair with a moulded handrail and brass barley-sugar twist balusters. The east gallery front is adorned with Gothic panelling.

Adjacent to the church is a simple rectangular harled former watch-house that now serves as a Sunday school room, featuring a central door and a single modern window, with end stacks and a slate roof.

The burial ground is enclosed by a large square rubble wall with a roughly tooled cope, containing 18th and 19th century tombstones. The entrance features a harled arched design with contrasting painted margins and a cornice, along with inscribed plaques commemorating those who fell in the 1914-18 war, and a further plaque for the 1939-45 war. There are also a pair of wrought and cast-iron carriage gates.