Port Bannatyne Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 20/02/1998 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Parish North Bute NGR NS 07881 67286 Coordinates 207881, 667286 — William McGibbon, 1886. 3-stage, 3-bay gothic church comprising central gabled nave; 5-stage, square-plan Tudor-detailed tower recessed to left; pitch-roofed bay recessed to right; rectangular-plan, gabled hall adjoining at rear. Harl-pointed random rubble sandstone; yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Stepped plinth; architraved cill courses at 1st and 2nd stages (and 3rd stage to tower); architraved string courses; moulded eaves. Stugged quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to pointed-arched, polished openings; block stops to hoodmoulds; sandstone mullions; chamfered reveals; chamfered cills. NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to tower in bay to outer left comprising 2-leaf timber door set in pointed-arch surround (deep, architraved reveals); small, narrow light above; large, narrow light at 3rd stage; small-paned square opening at 4th stage; 2 circular cinquefoils above; stepped parapet; flanking Jacobean-style finials. Advanced gabled nave at centre comprising 2 trefoil-headed bipartite windows at 1st stage; large plate-traceried window with columnar mullions aligned above; blind opening centred beneath apex; cruciform finial; flanking gabletted buttresses. Trefoil-headed bipartite window centred in pitched bay recessed to outer right. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: narrow lights at 1st, 2nd and 3rd stages of tower to outer right; bipartite, square-light at 4th stage; circular cinquefoil centred above; stepped parapet; flanking Jacobean-style finials. Bipartite windows in 3 bays to right set between buttresses; regularly-disposed circular cinquefoil clerestorey glazing recessed above. Church hall to adjoining to o

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.