Portpatrick Church Hall, School Bare, Portpatrick

Richard Park, 1886-7. Gothic-style gabled rectangular-plan gabled Church Hall, converted from church, with 3-stage tower to N. Whinstone; sandstone ashlar dressings. Advanced base course.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to arched central roll moulded entrance; nook shafts; 2-leaf boarded shoulder-arched timber door with trefoil to arch head; hoodmould; pair of trefoil headed narrow lights flanking; buttress to outer right. Arched tracery window to gable; hoodmould; 1887 ribbon panel above; cross finial at apex. 3 stage tower to left; flanking buttresses to boarded timber door; letterbox fanlight; narrow pointed arch louvred light at 2nd stage; recessed clockface at 3rd octagonal stage; heavy corbelling (intended to carry spire). Mullioned window to single storey bay to outer left.

Plate glass and 3-pane timber sash and case and fixed windows, leaded and stained glass. Grey slate roof; stone skews; stack to outer left. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: paired leaded windows to SE; deep splayed nave windows to NE and SW; decorative corbels; infilled gallery.

BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE: rubble boundary wall to outer left. Decorative railings and gate with ball finials dividing sections.