Overton Church (Church of Scotland), Including Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Gates, Ritchie Street

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/11/2009 Local Authority North Ayrshire Planning Authority North Ayrshire Parish West Kilbride NGR NS 20297 48132 Coordinates 220297, 648132 — Hippolyte J Blanc, 1883. Gabled, 6-bay, buttressed Gothic church with prominent square-plan tower with polygonal spire to NW corner and single transept to SW. Squared and snecked rock-faced red sandstone with smooth margins. Deep base course, moulded string courses. Some hoodmoulding. Mixture of pointed-arch and rectangular windows. 2-light windows with circular openings above to side elevations. 3-light window to transept gable. Later (1912) gabled church hall adjoins to rear. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: NW (STREET) ELEVATION: asymmetrical. Gabled elevation with advanced gabled porch to left with recessed, moulded, pointed-arched entrance with 2-leaf boarded timber entrance doors with decorative iron hinges. Central rose window with Celtic cross to apex. To right; 4-stage, angle-buttressed tower with tall, polygonal, lucarned, finialled spire. Square-plan, miniature angle towers with pyramidal stone roofs and blind openings to 3rd stage. Dentilled top stage belfry with deep-set, round-arched openings with continuous hoodmoulding. BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES: wall to NW, SE and SW. Squared and snecked rock-faced sandstone, coped walls; stepped to street. Pair of gatepiers with Gothic capstones to NW with decorative metal gates. Predominantly fixed leaded pane or stained glass windows. Graded green slates. Red ridge tiles. INTERIOR: (seen 2009). Fine, cohesive interior with curved timber boarded roof with rafters springing from stone corbels. Timber pews and en-suite communion table, pulpit and font. Timber gallery to NW with half-glazed screen beneath with coloured and leaded glass. Some fine commemorative

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.