Craigrownie Parish Church, Shore Road, Cove And Kilcreggan

Craigrownie Parish Church, built in 1869 by Hugh Barclay, originally served as a United Presbyterian Church and is now used as a church hall. The building is a long, rectangular hall-church aligned northeast-southwest. It is constructed from rubble with pink sandstone dressings, including droved margins, a base course, chamfered reveals, quoin strips, and projecting timber eaves.

The southwest elevation, which is the main facade, features a tall, gabled form with a later 19th-century lean-to gabled porch canopy at ground level. Architectural details are concentrated in a recessed panel at the centre. The timber porch has decorative bargeboards supported by paired colonnettes, steps, and a pointed arch with crocket capitals leading to a boarded tripartite door. Sculpted heads are set in roundels on either side of the porch gable. A quatrefoil band course runs along the elevation, above which is a large tripartite Y-tracery window with roundels.

The northeast elevation displays a broad gable with a large, Y-traceried pointed arch window at its centre. A single-storey, gabled vestry block sits at ground level, aligned northwest-southeast, with a lean-to gabled block attached to its right. A flat-roofed block from the 1930s is built onto the side.

The northwest elevation shows a symmetrical five-bay main block, with the advanced gable of the single-storey vestry block to the outer left. A tall, broad, slightly advanced gable is centrally positioned, featuring a pointed arch window with timber Y-tracery, flanked by a pair of lancets.

The southeast elevation presents a broad gable advanced at the centre, with two flanking lancets. The gable of the vestry block is recessed to the right, and a canted porch with a flat roof is located to the outer right, featuring eaves coping and a bipartite boarded door with flanking windows.

The windows are fitted with leaded lying-pane glazing. The roof is grey slate with terracotta ridge coping and wooden eaves, and the porch features variegated patterned slate.

Inside, the large hall has dark wood dado panelling and a gallery that has been blocked in at the southwest end. Two large, three-light windows, created by the Abbey Studio, with designs by F. Hase Hayden and Alex McArthur (1935), are dedicated to May M. Service (1875-1917). Smaller lancet windows contain stained glass of various designs.

The church is approached via two stylised, robust, irregular pairs of gate piers at the north and south. These are constructed from vertically laid ashlar masonry with stugged sandstone bands and stone ogival caps topped with polished ashlar finials (one finial is missing). The gate piers to the outer left and right are substantially larger, sloping down to fasten at the smaller pier; the remaining gate is a timber construction with a hanging post and two boarded panels reinforced with cast iron.

A rubble whinstone boundary wall, with harl-pointed boulder coping and some sea boulders, encloses the site.