St Modan’s Parish Church (Rosneath)

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 22/07/1974 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Parish Rosneath NGR NS 25441 83157 Coordinates 225441, 683157 — David Cousin, 1854, S transept added 1862, N transept 1873, chancel extended 1921, vestry built on S side of church 1929. English Gothic style, gabled church; irregular square-plan but reads as approximate cruciform; whinstone with polished honey-coloured sandstone dressings and details; stugged margins. Plate and geometric traceried windows; hoodmoulds, label stops; low, saw-tooth coped, staggered angle buttresses; base course. Steeply-pitched roofs. E ELEVATION: broad gabled nave at centre with transepts recessed to left and right, porches set in re-entrant angles. Deep base course, tall 3-light geometric traceried window at centre; honey-coloured shouldered gabled sandstone bellcote, cross finial. Window on right return; porch set in re-entrant angle to right, Tudor-arched door, (boarded with cast-iron hinges and handle), bipartite window to right; gabled porch on left return. S ELEVATION: 1862, symmetrical M-gable transept, 2-light geometric traceried window, figurative water spout at centre (possibly re-used from earlier building); memorial plaque at ground of outer right gable. Gabled porch to outer right, pointed arch doorway. 1929 T-plan vestry block to outer left in re-entrant angle; canted-end memorial chapel aligned SW-NE, 2-light lancets; piend-roofed block projecting to S, cruciform arrowslit window; chamfered door to right. N ELEVATION: 1873, M-gable transept, 2-light geometric traceried window to left, window to right 3-light with tracery replaced by pierced roundels (Oliphant stained glass window removed here in 1921 following enlarging of chancel). Tall gabled block, accommodating organ, rece

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