St Columba's Parish Church, Gallowgate Street, Largs

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 14/04/1971 Local Authority North Ayrshire Planning Authority North Ayrshire Burgh Largs NGR NS 20255 59629 Coordinates 220255, 659629 — Henry Steele and Andrew Balfour architects 1891-3. Cruciform-plan 1st pointed Gothic church with hall to east and tall 3-stage square tower with spire at north west corner. Red snecked and stugged ashlar and polished dressings. Tower with tall set-back buttresses to 1st and 2nd stage; pointed-headed hood-moulded door in north elevation. Tall 2nd stage, with set-off, lancets high on each face flanking gableted central pilaster strips. 3rd stage has engaged, banded octagonal angle piers with capping pinnacles, tall pointed-headed louvered belfry openings, and clock on each face at base of spire below gable. Faceted spire. Main entrance in west gable, with pinnacled angle buttresses. Central gabled doorway with nook shafts, under moulded, pointed arch and hood-mould; flanking buttresses. Tall, triple, plate-traceried lights above, with shafted jambs and moulded arches. Vescica in gable head. 5 bay buttressed nave and aisles; paired lancets with shafted jambs and hoodmoulds to aisle plate -traceried clerestory windows. Squat 2-stage octagonal tower with faceted roof at east end of aisles, each with pointed-headed door. Large, hoodmoulded pointed-headed transept windows with geometric tracery above blind arcade, flanked by gableted and pinnacled angle buttresses. Small central decorative fleche. 5-bay hall to east, orientated north south, with 5 paired lancets to clerestory at east and aisle. Gabled porch in north gable below triple lancets approached from west by steps with pierced balustrade and square low terminal piers. Small fleche. Slate roofs throughout. Interior: nave, clustered columned aisle arcade. West and t

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.