R. C. Church, Mitchell Street, Beith is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1980.

R. C. Church, Mitchell Street, Beith

WRENN ID
kindled-newel-gorse
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 December 1980
OS grid reference
NS 350 541
Coordinates
55.75208, -4.63044
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This Roman Catholic church, originally a United Free Church and before that a First Seceder church, was built in 1910, although a datestone indicates a previous building on the site from 1816. The church is a simple example of first pointed Gothic architecture, featuring a tower at the southeast angle that rises to an octagonal steeple. The steeple has tall, open lancet windows, pointed hoodmoulds, and gargoyles. The south-facing entrance elevation is buttressed and includes a recessed, boarded door in a pointed arch, with tall triple lancet windows above it, as well as a gablehead cross. The side elevations have five bays of tall lancet windows, and there is a small vestry attached to the northeast. The exterior is constructed of bull-faced, squared pale sandstone.

The windows have leaded glazing, and the roof is covered in grey slates with straight skews, incorporating a wallhead stack.

Inside, there is a gallery on the south side, and the church features a Gothic hammerbeam roof with a boarded timber ceiling.

The church is approached through cast-iron Gothic gate piers and wrought-iron gates, decorated with a quatrefoil motif. Low, coped sandstone walls define the boundaries to the south and east.

The original church on this site was built in 1816 by the First Seceders and named after its minister, the Reverend Andrew Mitchell. In 1900, it became a United Free Church, and it was rebuilt in 1910. In 1921, it was re-purposed as Our Lady's Roman Catholic Church.

Local climate

R. C. Church, Mitchell Street, Beith sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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