Lochwinnoch Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 10/06/1971 Local Authority Renfrewshire Planning Authority Renfrewshire Parish Lochwinnoch NGR NS 35306 58752 Coordinates 235306, 658752 — Built 1806-8. Irregular octagon. Rubble-built church with ashlar margins. 3-stage square tower with faceted spire to north east, tall arched and rusticated porch leading to round-headed door with fanlight at base flanked by open Roman Doric porches; ashlar; 2nd stage on panelled plinth, pilasters at angles and louvered belfry opening in architraves with consoled pediment to each face. 3rd stage: clock to each face in panel and faceted spire on low octagonal stage above. Rectangular windows behind flanking porches; remaining ground floor windows segmental-headed, square headed windows above. 12 and 16-pane sashes. Eaves band, cornice and blocking course. Piended and platform slate roof. Low session house to rear links to single storey 5-bay buttressed Gothic hall added 1901: John MacLelland of Kilbirnie, architect: bullfaced snecked ashlar with polished dressings, Porch with pointed-headed door on north west gable: pointed-arched windows on north east wall. Moulded skews with gableted skewputts and cross-finialed gables and slate roof. Church interior: panelled gallery supported on wooden Roman Doric columns; organ by Foster & Andrews installed 1885, with tubes behind pulpit: pulpit flanked by stained glass windows at ground and at gallery level, former, resurrection (circa 1928) and Good Samaritan themes (circa 1913), latter, the sower (circa 1883) and the reaper (circa 1888). South east gable window (circa 1915) of hall acquired 1947 from demolished former West church: Good Shepherd theme. Church bell by John Wilson & Co., Glasgow: cast 1810; re-cast 1849 and 1903. — John Logan & James Connelly masons, & Robert

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.