Park Church and Church Hall, Charlotte Street, Helensburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 08/09/1980 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Burgh Helensburgh NGR NS 29970 82434 Coordinates 229970, 682434 — John Honeyman, 1862; interior remodelled by William Leiper, 1888; church hall, G A Paterson (of Stewart and Paterson), 1928 )see below). Rectangular-plan, gothic church with gabled E (entrance) elevation, 3-stage tower with broach spire to NE angle, 5-bay side elevations, vestry, halls to W (looks like deep chancel) with canted stair block (1888) abutting to S, church hall adjoining to N. Squared, stugged and snecked cream and grey sandstone, ashlar dressings. Base course; eaves course, modillioned to S elevation; pointed-arch windows with plate tracery; saw tooth coped buttresses. E (CHARLOTTE STREET/ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled entrance bay to centre with tower advanced to right (see below), gabled aisle bay recessed to left. Slightly advanced lean-to porch to centre with ashlar half-piend roof and billet moulding to eaves, pair pointed-arch moulded doorways, each with boarded 2-leaf doors, decorative iron hinges. Rose window above with quatrefoil tracery, hoodmoulded. Vesica window to gablehead; stone cross to apex. Doorway on return to left. Gabled aisle bay to left with plate tracery window with colonnette-mullion and colonnettes to reveals, trefoil opening to gablehead. TOWER: angle buttresses; string courses. Lancets to E and W elevation at ground. Slightly advanced 2-stage stair tower to E elevation with arrow-loop stair lights. Small openings to upper stage. Belfry stage above, (open) plate tracery windows to each elevation with colonnette-mullioned and colonnettes to reveals. Nook-shafts below eaves. Gabled lucarnes to ashlar spire. Weathervane. S (KING STREET EAST/SIDE) ELEVATION: 5 windows to ais

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.