St Paul's Episcopal Church, Victoria Street, Rothesay, Bute is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1997. Church. 2 related planning applications.
St Paul's Episcopal Church, Victoria Street, Rothesay, Bute
- WRENN ID
- heavy-gable-fog
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1997
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Paul's Episcopal Church, located on Victoria Street in Rothesay, Bute, is a near-symmetrical, single bay church built in the mid to later 19th century, designed in a simple Gothic style. The church features gabled sides with four bays and buttresses, along with an engaged octagonal three-stage tower on the right side, topped with a gabletted belfry pinnacle. At the rear, there is a lower single storey, single bay addition.
The front of the church is constructed from droved yellow sandstone, with polished sandstone dressings. It has a raised ashlar base course and a later single storey coursed render pitched porch that is centrally located at the ground level. The sides and rear are made of harl-pointed rubble, with droved yellow sandstone quoins and tooled long and short surrounds around the openings. The buttresses are also droved. The pointed-arch openings feature architraved hoodmoulds, chamfered reveals, stone mullions for the bipartite windows, plate tracery, and trefoil-headed belfry windows.
On the north (entrance) elevation, there is an advanced porch at the centre with a single pointed-arch window, flanked by buttresses. A timber door with trefoil-headed panelling is located in the re-entrant angle to the right. Above the porch, there is a figurative label-stopped hoodmould over a bipartite window, and a crucifix finial sits atop the apex. The engaged tower on the outer right has a single window at the ground level set in the northwest facet, with additional windows in the north and west facets at the first floor. The third floor features tall belfry windows in each facet, some of which are part louvred and part blind, capped by a sandstone finial on the tapering tower.
The west elevation, facing Dean Hood Place, includes single trefoil-headed windows at the ground level in the penultimate bay to the outer right and left. There are pointed-arch bipartite windows in the penultimate bays on both sides, with buttresses situated between them. A single window is centred in the addition on the outer right, flanked by smaller buttresses.
The church has part-stained leaded windows and a graded grey slate roof with raised skews and a slate-hung porch.
The interior was not seen in 1996. Surrounding the church is a low coped, part-rendered boundary wall enclosing the site to the north and west, complemented by cast-iron railings.
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