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Latitude: 54.9332 / 54°55'59"N
Longitude: -3.8206 / 3°49'14"W
OS Eastings: 283445
OS Northings: 561354
OS Grid: NX834613
Mapcode National: GBR 1CRD.NC
Mapcode Global: WH5X6.88XG
Plus Code: 9C6RW5MH+7Q
Entry Name: Dalbeattie Park Church, Mill Street, Dalbeattie
Listing Name: Mill Street, Dalbeattie Park Church, (Church of Scotland) Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 4 November 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360224
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24317
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200360224
Location: Dalbeattie
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dalbeattie
Electoral Ward: Abbey
Traditional County: Kirkcudbrightshire
Tagged with: Church building
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.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Former free church.
More elaborate hall buildings planned but never executed due
to lack of funds.
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