St Kieran's Chapel, St John Street, Campbeltown

1849-50. Gothic church of rectangular plan with canted NW end elevation. Polished ashlar principal front, roughcast walls to sides and rear with droved ashlar dressings.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 bays, symmetrical, base course, moulded string course below cills. Centre bay advanced at ground floor, pointed-arched entrance door with moulded reveals, hoodmould over with floreate stops and engaged cross at apex. Sloping cill to pointed-arched window above, hoodmould over with carved mask stops. Gable above surmounted by carved cross. 3-tier battered buttresses flanking centre bay, filleted nook shafts to middle tier, panelled upper tier with crocketted pinnacles. Tall pointed-arch windows to outer bays with hoodmoulds above. 3-tier angle buttresses to outer left and right with stop chamfered upper tier and pinnacles as above. Moulded skew cope to gable, carved ashlar cross at apex.

SW ELEVATION: 3 bays, tall pointed-arch windows to each bay with stone Y-tracery and transoms, chamfered arrises and sloping cills. Ashlar margins at corners and eaves cornice.

NW ELEVATION: mirror image of SW elevation.

NW ELEVATION: 3-bay canted end elevation, windows matching side elevations at outer bays, single-storey lean to at centre bay.

Leaded glazing with coloured glass borders to windows of side and NW elevations. Timber mullions to SE windows, 3 circlets in arch-heads of centre window, single circlets to outer windows. 2-leaf, 4-panel timber entrance doors. Grey slate piended and bellcast roof to hall, mono-pitch roof to lean-to. Cast-iron downpipes. Octagonal ashlar wallhead stack, corniced with square base, centring rear elevation.

INTERIOR: modern interior (including false ceiling) of circa 1960. Monument to James Cattenach NW corner

BOUNDARY WALL: droved ashlar dwarf wall with moulded cope (railings removed) to St. John Street, terminated to S by square stop-chamfered ashlar pier with base and ogee cap. Matching gatepiers with pyramidal caps, cast-iron gate with decorative finials depicting crown, thistle, rose and shamrock.