St John's Town Of Dalry Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 - See Notes Date Added 04/11/1971 Local Authority Dumfries And Galloway Planning Authority Dumfries And Galloway Parish Dalry (Dumf & Galloway) NGR NX 61869 81194 Coordinates 261869, 581194 — William McAndlish, architect, 1832. T-plan buttressed neo-Gothic church with 3-stage tower to S front. Rubble walling with contrasting polished sandstone buttresses and chamfered margins. 5-bay S front with central tower flanked by lancets. All windows pointed arched with hoodmoulds, timber Y-tracery and small-pane glazing. N transept with large moulded pointed-arch opening (now with timber and glass infil) forming porch. Buttresses rise to pinnacles at angles. Moulded eaves cornice, slate roofs, stepped sandstone skews, pinnacles at gable apexes. 3-stage buttressed tower with moulded string-course between stages. Door to ground with quatrefoil moulded panel above; lancet windows to 1st stage, louvred openings to 3rd. Embattled parapet with pinnacles at angles. INTERIOR: panel-fronted gallery to 3 sides supported on cast-iron columns. Elaborate pulpit with ogee "dome" as tester. Communion table dated 1923. Walled graveyard with some 18th century stone. — B group with Dalry Old Church and Dalry Parish Church Vestry. Compares with Glancairn Parish Church, an almost identical design by McAndlish. Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.