Railings And Gates, Boundary Wall, Mission Hall, Kinloch Road, Campbeltown

This is a late 19th-century, irregularly composed Gothic former mission hall, constructed in 1888 by Henry E Clifford. The building comprises a rectangular gable-ended main hall, a double-gabled wing projecting to the north, and a two-story entrance tower with a belfry set within the re-entrant angle to the east. The exterior walls are constructed from stugged, squared, and snecked ashlar, with droved red sandstone ashlar dressings and details. A high, battered base course and eaves course run intermittently along the walls, while arrises are chamfered and cills slope to the lancet windows.

The north (entrance) front presents a symmetrical facade with a five-bay design. A double gabled wing is advanced to the third and fourth bays, featuring a central buttress and flanking double lancet windows. Stone infill within arch-heads above these windows is decorated with quatrefoils. The re-entrant angle incorporates the two-story entrance tower, which has a doorway with a corbelled lintel, a single lancet window above, and three closely spaced lancets at the first floor.

The east elevation is near-symmetrical, demonstrating two bays of the main hall gable with the projecting north wing and entrance tower to the right. Ground floor windows have sloping cills and corbelled lintels. A pointed-arched recess in the gablehead above contains a bipartite window, centred with quatrefoil decoration and a hoodmould. A blind slit window sits at the gable apex, while a three-flue wallhead stack breaks the skew-cope to the right.

The south elevation displays a five-bay side elevation of the hall, featuring a door at the fourth bay and bipartite windows in the others, all with sloping cills and corbelled lintels. The west elevation exhibits a symmetrical gable end, with the projecting north wing and entrance porch to the left. A triple lancet window dominates the gable, flanked by paired vesicas with a hood-mould. A blind slit window is positioned in the gablehead.

Timber sash and case windows are present on the east gable, with four panes at ground floor and eight-pane upper and two-pane lower sashes on the first floor. Two-pane timber windows with hoppers are found on the south and north elevations. Modern glazing is used in the west gable. Vertically-boarded timber entrance doors are located in the tower and porch. The roof is covered in grey slate, with a piended and bell-cast design at the tower and porch. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes are fitted. The tower’s belfry is slate-hung, featuring a timber traceried framework containing a bell above, topped with a tall pyramidal slate roof and an iron weathervane. A single flue rises from a shouldered and coped wallhead stack in the fourth bay of the south elevation. Corniced skews with scrolled ends are at the gables. The interior was not inspected in 1995.

Boundary walls constructed of concrete topped with a steel railing are present to the west and north. A curved corner is located at the northwest, paired with steel entrance gates. A random rubble wall with an ashlar saddleback cope runs to the south, curving at the east end.