Whiting Bay Church, Whiting Bay, Arran

This early 20th-century church in Whiting Bay, Arran, is a T-plan building designed in a simple Gothic style and includes a three-stage tower. It is constructed of red harled brick with red sandstone dressings, all topped with a slate roof. The exterior features a base course, a moulded wallhead course, buttressed aisles, battered diagonal angle buttresses, ashlar-coped skew blocks with large skew blocks, gabletted features to the front elevation and porch, and bi- and tripartite square-headed windows. Leaded glazing is used throughout.

The front elevation has a central gable porch with a boarded door, splayed jambs, a moulded segmental head, and a hoodmould. Windows flank the porch at the main wall plane. Above, a tripartite square-headed gallery window has a hoodmould and traceried detailing to the top, and an arrow-slit ventilator is set into the roofspace. The tower is slightly advanced to the right and features a base course and corniced first stage, displaying a memorial plaque. A tall second stage has a lancet window, while the corniced third stage has splayed angles, water spouts, and wide, squat segmental-headed, louvred belfry openings. A coped stepped parapet is surmounted by a slate spirelet topped with a weathervane finial.

The left return elevation contains three windows to the right, with a transept gable advanced to the left. A gabled porch is located on the right return. The right return elevation incorporates two windows to the centre and a transept gable advanced to the right, which has a four-light window facing the left return. The tower is located to the left. The rear elevation displays various small additions and two two-light windows to the main gable. The interior of the church has not been inspected.

A memorial plaque on the tower is inscribed to the memory of the Reverend Angus Stewart, who served as pastor in Whiting Bay from 1876 to 1903. The inscription reads: “This tower is erected to the glory of God and in memory of the Rev Angus Stewart, an earnest preacher and devoted pastor in Whiting Bay from 1876 till 1903. He being dead yet speaketh.”