Church Overview

Close by the roofless shell of the 1704 parish church stands architect John More Dick Peddie‘s 1895 sturdy, red sandstone, Romanesque church with its handsome square tower topped by a short slated spire.

It possesses an unusually colourful kingpost-truss roof over the nave and scissors roof in the chancel, a fine octagonal oak pulpit and a three-light stained glass window of the Ascension by Ballantine and Gardiner, installed in 1896.

The church houses several memorials to local worthies and the early 18th century finial removed from the roof of its ruined predecessor parish church. The nearby graveyard contains a late Georgian burial enclosure and the suave classical monument to the Carruthers of Whitecroft.

Dalton Kirk was a Destination Hub on our St Mungo Pilgrim Journey, but in September 2025 it was closed and marketed for sale by the Church of Scotland as part of its nationwide rationalisation of its building portfolio.

Services

No services

Opening Arrangements

Building now closed. Adjacent graveyard remains in care of local authority and is open to the public.

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