St John's Church, Bath Street, Gourock

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 10/06/1971 Local Authority Inverclyde Planning Authority Inverclyde Burgh Gourock NGR NS 24065 77780 Coordinates 224065, 677780 — J, J M & W H Hay, 1857; tower completed Bruce & Spurrock, 1877-8. Decorated gothic church with open-work crown to impressive 4-stage NE tower, church hall to SE, en suite. Variegated rubble with cream ashlar dressings, tower coursed and squared rubble, rubble to nave and church hall. Base course; battered buttresses with sawtooth coping; pointed-arched windows with reticulated tracery; corbelled and gablet skewputts; sawtooth skews. Eaves band course. TOWER: large diagonal buttresses and off-set octagonal stair turret with arrow-slit windows and half-pyramidal ashlar roof to SE rising to 2nd stage. Broad pointed-arched doorway to NE with hoodmould and block label-stops, paired colonnettes flanking with ball flowers to moulded opening of trefoil-headeded door surround, boarded door with decorative wrought-iron hinges; bipartite windows on NW return. Large tripartite window at 2nd stage above. Paired lancets with trefoiled heads to each face of 3rd stage; nook-shafts rising to crown. Top stage with drum pinnacled angle buttresses, clocks set in pointed-arch panels to each face with finial above; open-work crown (of linked flying buttresses) with large crockets and ashlar bellcote, arcaded and open-crowned. NAVE: 6-bay. NW elevation with bipartite windows divided by buttresses, northernmost bay gabled with taller window breaking eaves in gablehead. SE elevation as above but mostly obscured by hall. Gabled end elevation with large blocked pointed-arched window with modern cross window inserted; single storey piended and platformed vestry with bi- and tripartite windows below. CHURCH HALL: gabled hall adjoining to SE with bro

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.