Barr Parish Church, Stinchar Road, Barr

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Category C Date Added 07/09/1978 Supplementary Information Updated 14/01/2025 Local Authority South Ayrshire Planning Authority South Ayrshire Parish Barr NGR NX 27448 94069 Coordinates 227448, 594069 — Barr Parish Church is a rectangular-plan church is in the Early English Gothic style and was designed and built by Allan Stevenson, 1877-8. The bellcote to the southeast buttress is by William Tennent in 1898. The building was restored by Anthony Richardson and Partners in 1978 adding a vestibule below the gallery, itself of 1888 by Stevenson. Located in Barr, the church is located at the western end of the village in a prominent position at a road and river junction. The church is constructed partly in squared whinstone with other sections of random rubble. There are freestone dressings, simple lancets (pointed arches), hoodmoulds and skewed buttresses. There is a bellcote to the southeast angle and corner buttresses. There is buttressed gabled porch to the southeast with arched doorway, small flanking lancet windows, and stone cross to the apex. There is gabled vestry to the north gabled elevation. The interior has a simple timber boarded dado and a timber boarded gallery (to south gable). There is a raised timber pulpit (in gothic style) to the centre of the north wall flanked by doors leading the vestry. There is an open arch-braced roof (tie rods dating to 1891). A rubble-built boundary wall with rubble copes encloses the site. The main entrance to the churchyard has a pair of slender iron gatepiers with an iron gateway and flanking iron railings. Historical background Barr Parish Church, built 1877-8, replaced the earlier church of 1653. The Ordnance Survey Name Book of 1855-7 describes the earlier church as a simple construction and the First Edition Ordnance Surv

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.