Kingarth And Kilchattan Bay Church Of Scotland, Kilchattan Bay, Bute

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 20/02/1998 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Parish Kingarth NGR NS 10021 55140 Coordinates 210021, 655140 — 1890. Symmetrical, rectangular-plan plain Gothic style church with 'nave-and-aisles' gable facing NE; 5 bay sides; later additions at rear. Squared and snecked tooled red sandstone; red ashlar dressings. Raised plinth; stepped, architraved string course to gable front; polished quoins; polished long and short surrounds to chamfered openings; stone mullions to square-headed bipartites; chamfered cills. Harl-pointed random rubble sandstone at sides and rear; tooled red rubble quoins; tooled long and short surrounds to pointed-arched openings. Harled additions at rear; red sandstone dressings. NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to 2-leaf timber panelled door centred at ground; polished, roll-moulded detailing to chamfered reveals; flanking bipartite windows. Raised surround to geometric-traceried rose window centred in pointed-arched, panelled recess at 2nd stage; moulded stops to architraved hoodmould; pointed-arched, tripartite louvred opening centred beneath apex above; sculpted finial. Flanking gableted buttresses to gable end; lozenge-shaped openings with pointed ends in recessed bays to outer left and right. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: gableted, finialed belfry with pointed-arched hoodmould surmounting wallhead to outer right (bell in situ); regularly fenestrated in remaining 5 bays advanced to left; later single storey harled additions beyond. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: steps to timber panelled door at ground in bay to outer left; regularly fenestrated in remaining 5 bays advanced to right; later harled additions beyond. SW (REAR) ELEVATION: pointed-arched tripartite window centred in gable front; square-head louvred open

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.