Craigrownie Parish Church, Shore Road, Cove and Kilcreggan

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 08/09/1980 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Burgh Cove And Kilcreggan NGR NS 22487 80863 Coordinates 222487, 680863 — Hugh Barclay, 1869, with some later additions at rear. Gabled, hall-chuch, originally built for United Presbyterian Church, now church hall. Long rectangular-plan aligned NE-SW. Rubble with pink sandstone, droved margins; base course; chamfered reveals, quoin strips, projecting timber eaves. SW (MAIN) ELEVATION: broad, tall gable with later 19th century lean-to gabled porch canopy at ground; architectural details concentrated at centre in panel recessed from wall frame. Timber porch with decorative bargeboard supported on paired colonnettes, steps; pointed arch door on colonnettes, crocket capitals, boarded tripartite door; sculpted heads in roundels at either side of gable of porch; quatrefoil band course; tripartite Y-tracery with roundels. NE ELEVATION: broad gable; large Y-traceried pointed arch window at centre. Single storey, gabled vestry block at ground aligned NW-SE with lean-to gabled block to right, circa 1930s flat-roofed block built onto side of block. NW ELEVATION: 5-bay symmetrical main block, advanced gable of single storey vestry block at outer left. Tall broad gabled slightly advanced at centre, pointed arch window, timber Y-tracery; flanking pair of lancets. SE ELEVATION: broad gable advanced at centre, 2 flanking lancets; gable of vestry block recessed to right, canted, flat roofed porch to outer right, eaves coping, bipartite boarded door, flanking windows. Leaded lying-pane glazing; grey slate roof, terracotta ridge coping, wooden eaves; variegated patterned slate at porch. INTERIOR: large hall with dark wood dado panelling; gallery blocked in at SW end. 2 large 3-light windows

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.