Kingarth And Kilchattan Bay Church Of Scotland, Kilchattan Bay, Bute

1. Symmetrical, rectangular-plan plain Gothic style church with 'nave-and-aisles' gable facing NE; 5 bay sides; later additions at rear. Squared and snecked tooled red sandstone; red ashlar dressings. Raised plinth; stepped, architraved string course to gable front; polished quoins; polished long and short surrounds to chamfered openings; stone mullions to square-headed bipartites; chamfered cills. Harl-pointed random rubble sandstone at sides and rear; tooled red rubble quoins; tooled long and short surrounds to pointed-arched openings. Harled additions at rear; red sandstone dressings.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to 2-leaf timber panelled door centred at ground; polished, roll-moulded detailing to chamfered reveals; flanking bipartite windows. Raised surround to geometric-traceried rose window centred in pointed-arched, panelled recess at 2nd stage; moulded stops to architraved hoodmould; pointed-arched, tripartite louvred opening centred beneath apex above; sculpted finial. Flanking gableted buttresses to gable end; lozenge-shaped openings with pointed ends in recessed bays to outer left and right.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: gableted, finialed belfry with pointed-arched hoodmould surmounting wallhead to outer right (bell in situ); regularly fenestrated in remaining 5 bays advanced to left; later single storey harled additions beyond.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: steps to timber panelled door at ground in bay to outer left; regularly fenestrated in remaining 5 bays advanced to right; later harled additions beyond.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: pointed-arched tripartite window centred in gable front; square-head louvred opening beneath apex above; piended and pitched additions advanced to front.

Predominantly stained and leaded glazing; various skylights to rear additions. Graded grey slate roofs; raised stone skews; gableted skewputts; replacement rainwater goods. Coped red sandstone apex stack to SW; circular cans.

INTERIOR: boarded timber dado panelling to vestibule; plain cornice. Nave comprising boarded timber dado panelling; timber pews; timber panelled doors; blind, panelled balustrading to NE gallery beneath rose window. Decorative foliate capitals to regularly disposed columns running NE-SW; timber panelled pulpit; octagonal baptismal font; timber lecturn. Plain plaster cornices; painted hoodmoulds with moulded stops to NE openings. Boarded timber pitched roof to later hall at rear.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: polished coping to harl-pointed rubble wall to street; square-plan, stop-chamfered, slightly droved gatepiers comprising plinths, quatrefoil details set in circular panels in each facet, tapering caps. Wrought-iron gates; replacement wrought-iron railings.