Greenock Elim Church, Kelly Street, Greenock

Greenbank Elim Church was built in 1882 as a United Presbyterian Church and was designed by the architect Hippolyte Jean Blanc. Situated on a corner site, the church is in the Early Pointed Gothic revival style. It is cruciform in plan with two transepts and has a prominent four-stage, saddleback tower (pitched roofed) in the southeast corner. It is built with squared, rock-faced rubble with ashlar margins, set-back buttresses, a deep base course and hoodmoulds above the windows. The window openings to the church and tower are mostly shallow pointed. The gable of the nave and transepts are lit by three lancet windows.

The principal elevation to the southeast (Kelly Street) has a central gabled section with four small lancet windows to the lower part and three larger lancets above, a roundel above and a Celtic cross at the apex. To the right of this section, stairs lead to a 2-leaf, timber panelled entrance door set within a deep, pointed-arch doorway at the ground stage of the tower. The tower has narrow lancet windows to the upper storeys with bipartite windows with central columns to two of the top storey faces. A lower, single-storey round-ended room with a timber entrance door and small narrow lancet windows lies to the southwest of this elevation. Further to the southwest, and set back from the road, is a canted, 2-storey section with a hexagonal roof.

The windows are mainly of small pane fixed glass and there are grey slates to the roof with some red-ridge tiling.

The interior was seen in 2016. The interior has been modified to provide a worship space with no pews, communion table or pulpit and the rubble walling is exposed. There is a distinctive timber trefoil barrel vaulted roof. Several sections have been enclosed to provide extra room space including the former gallery, part of the transepts and an area below the gallery. There is a central nave with two narrow, 5-bay aisles whose bays are separated by pointed arches on stone piers with octagonal capitals.

The church hall lies to the rear of the canted section to the southwest of the church and was added in 1933 by the local architect Alexander Stewart McGregor. It is squared rubble and has a grey slate roof. The interior of the main hall has a dark timber ceiling with rooflights.

There is a low boundary wall to the southeast and northeast with saddleback coping.