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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 750266
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/750266
NY17SW 33 11384 73986
For church and burial-ground at Little Dalton (NY 0891 7468), see NY07SE 11. For Dalton, Old Parish Church (NY 1143 7397), see NY17SW 1.
Church [NAT]
OS 1:10000 map, 1973
Dalton parish church is a unitary structure of 18th-century date and a fine example of its type, being rectangular on plan with rusticated quoins, door, and window margins, a chamfered plinth, a bellcote (with orb and vane) and gate piers. The church is entered by a doorway in each gable, while entrances at first floor level, each formerly approached by a forestair (that on the E survives), gave access to lofts located at each end of the church. The presence of a circular window towards the apex of the E gable suggests that the laird's loft was at this end of the church.
There are a few 18th-century gravestones in the burial-ground.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS, PC), 25 August 1993.
[Dalton] Parish Church. Simple Early Christian by J M Dick Peddie, 1894-5.
J Gifford 1996.
