Trinity Church, Castle Street, Rothesay, Bute

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 26/11/1996 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Burgh Rothesay NGR NS 08918 64500 Coordinates 208918, 664500 — Archibald Simpson, 1843-5; additional hall mid 20th century. Symmetrical 3- by 6-bay rectangular-plan plain Gothic Free Kirk with pitched outbuildings to rear; prominent 3-stage angle-buttressed tower to front. Coursed droved yellow sandstone ashlar (plastic repairs applied later); random rubble sandstone to E, W and S. Raised margins; base course; chamfered string courses. Pointed-arch openings; architraved ashlar mullions; Y- tracery; pointed-arch hoodmoulds, moulded label-stops. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, 3-storey symmetrical elevation. Central entrance tower with door set in pointed-arch reveal, 2-leaf timber door with decorative inset relief; blind timber fanlight; large bipartite cusped window at 2nd stage; large louvred bipartite window above surmounted by octagonal spire; flanking panelled dies with crocketted pinnacles; small bipartite lucarne with ogee hoodmould; crocketted string course; wrought-iron finial. Tall narrow single windows in flanking chamfered bays; capped to outer left and right; crocket missing from right pinnacle. E AND W (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: recessed single bay to N; 2-leaf timber door with decorative inset relief as above; bipartite fanlight; large louvred opening in tower above. Symmetrical disposition of bipartite, Y-tracery windows in 5 advanced bays to S of entrance. Predominantly clear leaded glazing; stained-glass tripartite chancel window; stained single windows to outer left and right of E and W elevations respectively. Grey slate roof to church; raised stone skews. HALL: pitched single storey church hall/meeting room to rear; graded grey slates; raised stone skews; coped

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.