St Bartholomew's Church, Barrhill Road, Gourock

St Bartholomew's Church, located on Barrhill Road in Gourock, was designed by J C Sharp in 1857 and extended by H D Walton around 1895. This small, three-bay Gothic church features a later chancel and a north aisle. It is constructed from variegated sandstone and rubble, with stugged and polished ashlar dressings and some harl pointing. Architectural details include pointed ashlar mullions, chamfered reveals, battered buttresses with sawtooth coping, finialled gables, sawtooth coped skews, and rounded skewputts, along with reticulated tracery.

The nave consists of three bays and has a small gabled stone porch on the south side, featuring a pointed-arch chamfered doorway. Narrow bipartite windows with quatrefoil tracery flank the entrance. The west elevation is gabled and has a central buttress that rises to a gabled and finialled apex bellcote, with bipartite windows and diagonal buttresses on either side. The north side has four gabled bays divided by buttresses, each with tripartite windows, and a single-storey vestry to the outer left, which has a tripartite window with depressed lights on its east return. There is also a later single-storey gabled addition to the first gable.

The chancel, which was added around 1895, is lower and gabled, featuring a battered base course on the east side, a tripartite traceried window with a hoodmould and masque stops above, and two narrow lancets on the south return. There is a secondary entrance on the north return. The church has square-pane leaded windows and a slate roof with lead flashings, as well as ornamental gutterheads.

Inside, the walls are rendered with stone dressings, and the chancel has a braced timber roof. Notable interior features include an elaborate cast- and wrought-iron rood screen, blind arcading on the east wall with red marble colonnettes and foliate capitals, an altar with a blind arcade of squat marble colonnettes and a tripartite gabled and crocketted reredos, and a polygonal stone pulpit ornately carved with green marble columns. The chancel and one bipartite window contain stained glass. A low rubble wall with later railings surrounds the church.