Ardentinny Church

Heritage listing

Category C Group Category Details 100000020 - See Notes Date Added 20/07/1971 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Parish Dunoon And Kilmun National Park Loch Lomond And The Trossachs NGR NS 18790 87559 Coordinates 218790, 687559 — Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority Ardentinny Church, built in 1838-9, is a rectangular gable-fronted church with a gabled porch and a small bellcote. It is simple in its design and largely without ornament, but reflects well on the status of Ardentinny at the time, a small village, reliant on fishing and ferry traffic. For its position in the development of Ardentinny, its prominent and picturesque location and the contribution it makes to the streetscape, in particular in relation to the adjacent cottages, as well as for its unaltered condition, is found to be of specific interest. The entrance to the church (on the NW elevation) is through a basket-arched door with a chamfered ashlar surround. The two-leaf panelled timber door has a plain fanlight above. Both the main church building and the front porch have saddle-backed skews. The bellcote to the apex is on a dentilled plinth, with stop-chamfered round-arched openings. The side elevations consist of three large 16-lying-pane timber sash and case windows. To the rear is a small projection containing the vestry. To the front of the church is a rubble boundary wall with semicircular copes. Interior: the interior is largely undecorated, with timber boarding to dado height and plain timber pews. Behind the altar is a dark timber sounding-board and canopy. The flat ceiling, at collar height is decorated only with a plain cornice and linear mouldings. Materials: white painted harled rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings. Graded slate roof.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.