Highland Parish Church, Argyll Street, Campbeltown

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 20/07/1971 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Burgh Campbeltown NGR NR 72014 20064 Coordinates 172014, 620064 — George Dempster of Greenock, 1803-08. 2-storey 7 x 4-bay classical church of rectangular plan with 3-tier entrance/bell tower of 1884 projecting at centre of NE (principal) front. Roughcast walls with droved ashlar margins and details. Droved ashlar tower. Base course, string and cill courses at 1st floor level, eaves cornice. Margins to windows, doors and corners, projecting cills. NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3 centre bays slightly advanced, pedimented gable with plain acroteria, tower obscuring centre bay. Outer bays slightly advanced, gallery doors at ground with stone steps, blank ashlar plaques above. TOWER: 3-stage, high base course, stone steps to round-arched entrance door. Band course and cill course at 1st floor with round- arched window at centre. Principal cornice at 2nd floor with subsidiary cornice above. Plain base to upper stage, round-arched openings with louvres, pilasters framing faces and angled corners. Entablature and cornice above with cutaway corners. Parapet with lugged, architraved, panel surmounted by segmental pediment and ball final to each face. Octagonal spires at corners on corniced bases with fluted pilasters, ball finials at apexes. NW ELEVATION: 4-bay side elevation with gallery stair tower projecting forward in bay to outer left, single round-arched window to landing on SW face. Round-arched windows at 2nd - 3rd bays, regularly spaced. Entrance door at ground floor between bays 3 and 4. SE ELEVATION: mirrored layout of NW elevation (above). SW (REAR) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 4 bays, with round-arched windows at ground and 1st floor of outer bays. Large round-arched windows to

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.