Dinnet Parish Church, Dinnet

1. vestry and porch (probably) added 1890; undergoing alteration 2003; boundary walls and gatepiers added 1899. Small rectangular-plan gothic church with 3-bay nave, bellcote and part-crowstepped gables. Squared and snecked granite with ashlar dressings. Deep base and eaves courses. Shoulder-arched doors and lancet windows. Single and 2-stage sawtooth-coped buttresses. Hoodmoulds.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION:E (principal) elevation: symmetrical gabled elevation with triple lancet window to centre over gabled porch with small window, angle buttresses and 2-leaf timber door with decorative ironwork hinges to each return, single lancets to flanking bays and 2-stage angle buttresses beyond, that to left inscribed 'PARISH 1881'; bellcote (bell missing) piercing eaves at left and stone Celtic cross finial at gablehead. S elevation: bays to right with buttress with hand pump flanked by paired lancets below diminutive louvered triangular roof ventilators (see Notes); advanced gable of lower vestry to left, with 2 single windows and right return with door to right under roof ventilator as above and small modern rooflight, single window to left with '1890' carved on cill; left return with variety of altered openings. Further small square-headed window to outer left. W (rear)elevation: altered gabled elevation retaining outer lancets, rose window, small cruciform opening in gablehead and ironwork finial. N elevation: bays to left with 2 paired lancets flanking buttress (that to right over small basement entrance), 2 roof ventilators (see Notes) and porch to outer right with single lancet and door in return to left.

Diamond-pattern leaded windows, except to N. Red fishscale-pattern bands and grey slates with diamond-pattern leading at ridge. Ashlar-coped stepped skews with moulded skewputts at base of crowsteps.

INTERIOR: fine hammerbeam roof retained.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: granite-coped river pebble boundary walls with coped square-section ashlar gatepiers, 1 bearing monogram of 'CWB' and dated '1900' (see Notes).