Pirnmill Church Of Scotland, Pirnmill

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 13/11/2003 Local Authority North Ayrshire Planning Authority North Ayrshire Parish Kilmory NGR NR 87395 44746 Coordinates 187395, 644746 — Circa 1920. Small, rectangular-plan corrugated-iron single storey pitched-roofed church set back from main Arran road in field. Half-timbered gables; 3 bays to W elevation plus gabled vestry projecting to outer R with timber boarded door in re-entrant angle. Gabled vestibule to N with 2-leaf boarded W-facing door. Grey painted corrugated-iron; green painted timber to gables; white painted fenestration and green painted concrete basecourse. Timber top-hopper windows; 2-pane lower sections, 6-pane upper. Asbestos roof tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: good original typically plain scheme in place. Lined throughout with boarded yellow pine; kingpost roof structure. Timber panelled door from vestibule to central aisle; timber bench pews either side with upholstered cushions; pulpit (slightly altered) on raised platform. Timber panelled part-glazed vestry door. — Ecclesiastical building, still in use as such and intact. Erected by the Free Church of Scotland circa 1920 probably as a church hall, the building served the Free Church congregation who had worshipped at Lenimore until the church there was demolished. The Church of Scotland leased the building from the Free Church in the early 1990s. The Church of Scotland had worshipped in the nearby former Church of Scotland, Pirnmill (separately listed) until it closed. This prefabricated church is of a type manufactured by companies such as Spiers & Co of Glasgow and Charles D Young & Co of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool and London, specialising in temporary buildings that were quick and cheap to erect. Models such as halls, schools and churches in various siz

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.