St Paul's Church, Rothesay

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 24/03/1997 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Burgh Rothesay NGR NS 08666 64733 Coordinates 208666, 664733 — Mid to later 19th century. Near-symmetrical, single bay simple Gothic style, gabled Episcopal church with 4-bay buttressed sides; engaged octagonal 3-stage tower to right; gabletted belfry pinnacle; lower single storey, single bay addition at rear. Droved yellow sandstone to front; polished sandstone dressings. Raised ashlar base course (coped rubble plinth at side); later single storey coursed render pitched porch centred at ground. Harl-pointed rubble at sides and rear; droved yellow sandstone quoins; tooled long and short surrounds to openings; droved buttresses. Architraved hoodmoulds above pointed-arch openings; chamfered reveals; stone mullions to bipartites; plate tracery; trefoil-headed belfry windows. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced porch centred at ground comprising central single pointed-arch window; flanking buttresses; timber door with trefoil-headed panelling in re-entrant angle to right. Figurative label-stopped hoodmould surmounting bipartite window centred beneath 1st floor apex; crucifix finial. Engaged tower to outer right comprising single window at ground set in NW facet; single windows at 1st floor set in N and W facets; tall belfry windows in each facet at 3rd floor (part louvred, part blind); sandstone finial surmounting tapering tower. W (DEAN HOOD PLACE) ELEVATION: single trefoil-headed windows at ground in penultimate bay to outer right and bay to outer left; pointed-arch bipartite windows in penultimate bay to outer left and bay to outer right; buttresses set between. Single window centred in addition to outer right; flanking smaller buttresses. Part-stained leaded windows. Graded

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.