Places to visit
Two churches, forty metres apart
The roofless parish church of 1704 and the Victorian church that replaced it stand within sight of each other in the middle of Dalton village.
Dalton village has two churches standing forty metres apart, and between them they cover three centuries.
The older one is roofless: the parish church of 1704, built on the base course of a medieval building whose plinth still runs the length of the north wall. It has a birdcage bellcote on the west gable, and doorways set high in the walls that once opened into galleries reached by stone stairs outside. It is a scheduled monument, SM8676, and the churchyard around it, with its gatepiers and its hearse house, is Category A listed.
The newer one is Victorian rather than Georgian, whatever you may read elsewhere: a confident Romanesque revival building of 1895 in red ashlar by the architect J Dick Peddie, with a squat two stage tower and a corbelled parapet. It is Category B listed. Like many small village churches it has recently been sold and is being converted into a private house, so please look at it from the road rather than the garden.