Ardbeg Baptist Church, Ardbeg Road, Rothesay, Bute

1855; hall and vestry additions G M MacLintock, 1923; church hall lowered later 20th century. Symmetrical 3- by 3-bay stripped Gothic style Baptist church with large rose window centred in 'nave and aisles' gable to E; additional pitched hall at rear. Squared and snecked stugged yellow sandstone to E; polished sandstone dressings. Polished plinth; full-height roll-moulded pointed-arch panel centred beneath gable; advanced gabled entrance; slightly droved surrounds to pointed-arched openings at ground. Harl-pointed random rubble sandstone to sides and rear. Tooled quoins; tooled long and short rubble surrounds to painted bipartite openings (chamfered stone mullions). Harled hall and linking wing at rear.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to gabled doorpiece centred at ground comprising 2-leaf boarded timber door set in roll-moulded, shouldered- arch surround; curvilinear cast-iron fittings; pointed-arch architraved chamfered reveals, pointed-arch hoodmould beneath apex; curvilinear cast-iron finials to centre, right and left. Leaded slits at ground flanking entrance; single windows at ground in bays to outer left and right. 8-light rose-window aligned above entrance; foliate stops to hoodmould centred beneath apex; cast-iron circular finial.

N AND S (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: 3-bay with later additions to W. Bipartite windows at ground in all 3 bays; 4 gabled lucarnes equally disposed above. Bipartite dormer breaking eaves in bays to outer left and right respectively; slate-hung piends; curvilinear cast-iron finials; decorative cast-iron ridge brattishing flanking E gable. Harled additions to W.

Stained windows to E; opaque-glazed lower, stained-glass upper windows to sides; 4-pane timber sash and case openings to additional linking wing; tripartite rooflights set in rear hall. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; coped apex stack to W; circular cans; corniced apex stacks to rear hall; circular cans.

INTERIOR: mosaic-tiled vestibule floor; timber skirting board; plaster cornice; office to left; gallery stair to right. Main hall lowered later 20th century; timber panelled doors; boarded timber dado panelling; timber pews; cast-iron columns supporting timber gallery to E (now blocked). Panelled timber pulpit to W; gableted minister's chair; enclosing balustrade comprising stop-chamfered timber newels, arcaded cast-iron uprights, timber handrail. Additional hall to rear; hammerbeam roof; timber dado panelling; 2-leaf timber panelled door.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: low coped rubble wall to Ardbeg Road. Stop-chamfered whitewashed piers to outer left and right; pyramidal caps; decorative cast-iron railings set between.