Church, Old School Road, Garelochhead

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 14/05/1971 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Parish Rhu NGR NS 23945 91166 Coordinates 223945, 691166 — 1837, enlarged in 1894. Simple, rectangular-plan Gothic hall church. Cream-coloured harl with polished sandstone ashlar margins and dressings. Base course, quoin strips; eaves moulding. Lancet windows, deeply-moulded and chamfered margins. S ELEVATION: 3 symmetrical bays, centre bay advanced, breaking eaves with Gothic ashlar birdcage belfry; slender broach spire; cross finial over each gablet; blind lucarnes on spire; lead, weather-vane finial. Pointed arch entrance, circa 1930s 2-leaf wooden door with multi- pane fanlight and upper panels. Large window above (3-light divisions). Flanking lancets, bipartite. E ELEVATION: 4-bay main block with late 19th century 2 bays to outer right of flat-roofed link bay and lower, single storey vestry. Main block symmetrical with tall lancets. Metal plaque commemorating the war dead of both wars between outer left and penultimate bay. Link block with lancet-headed doorway and window; pedimented console below strip quoin and marks start of bracketted cornice; slate, half-piend roof of N apse seen above cornice. Slightly-advanced gable of vestry to outer right; broad, pointed-arch window (3-light division), blind roundel at gablehead; fleur-de-lys finial, squat, coped apex stack. W ELEVATION: 4 bay symmetrical main block with later 19th century addition at rear, now somewhat obscured by modern rendered addition to W. N ELEVATION: 4 symmetrical bays of later 19th century addition, pointed-arch windows directly under eaves (bipartite divisions). N gable of main body of church rising behind. Modern, flat-roofed, prefabricated addition attached to right. Metal-framed windows with cus

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.