R. C. Church, Mitchell Street, Beith

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 02/12/1980 Local Authority North Ayrshire Planning Authority North Ayrshire Parish Beith NGR NS 35010 54103 Coordinates 235010, 654103 — 1910; inserted datestone of 1816 (see Notes). Simple first pointed Gothic church incorporating tower at SE angle, rising to octagonal steeple with tall open lancets, pointed hooldmoulds and gargoyles. Buttressed entrance elevation to S with central recessed boarded door in pointed arch tall triple lancets above; gablehead cross; 5 bays of tall lancets to side elevations; small adjoining vestry to NE. Bull-faced squared pale sandstone. Leaded glazing. Grey slates; straight skews; wallhead stack. INTERIOR: gallery to S; Gothic hammerbeam roof with boarded timber ceiling. GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: cast-iron Gothic gatepiers and wrought-iron gates with quatrefoil motif. Low coped sandstone wall to S and E. — A church of the First Seceders was built on this site in 1816 and was named after its Minister, the Reverend Andrew Mitchell. In 1900 the church became a United Free Church. This was rebuilt as the present church in 1910. In 1921 the church became Our Lady's Roman Catholic Church.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.