Jamestown Parish Church, Main Street, Jamestown

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/07/1974 Local Authority West Dunbartonshire Planning Authority West Dunbartonshire Parish Bonhill NGR NS 39769 81340 Coordinates 239769, 681340 — Clarke and Bell, 1869-70. Gothic T-plan church with tower and transept. Stugged, squared and snecked red sandstone, ashlar margins and dressings. Base course, angle buttresses; pointed arch windows. W (MAIN) ELEVATION: entrance tower with tall broached ashlar spire; broad gable to right, lower bay of aisle to outer right. TOWER: 2-stage with tall ashlar spire, pinnacled pier buttresses. Slightly advanced sawtooth gabled door surround, pointed arch door, moulded on colonnettes; boarded 2-leaf door, cast-iron hinges; window on left return similarly treated. 2-light, Y-traceried louvered wndow at belfry stage, gable breaking into spire, small lozenge-shaped light below, ashlar broached pire, lucarnes, cruciform arrowslits at upper stage, corniced, weathervane. Broad pinnacled gable to right, 4 small lancets at centre ground, string course stepped over, angle buttress to right; large 4-light nave window incorporating large wheel tracery, hoodmould. Transept bay recessed to right, 2-light window. S ELEVATION: 5-bay aisle with gabled transept to right, single storey vestry to outer right. Gable of aisle to outer left, diagonal buttresses, 3-light, 3-centred arch window, 2-light window above. 4 pointed arch windows symmetrically disposed to right at ground, clerestorey. Broad gabled transept advanced to right, 2 cusped plate traceried windows at ground, wheel window at upper stage, pointed arch window on return. Single storey vestry block advanced to outer right, gabled door clasping to right, Caernarvon arched window to right. N ELEVATION: tower to right, 4-bay nave transept to outer left. Leaded windows. Gr

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.