Fairlie Parish Church Hall, Main Road, Fairlie

The Fairlie Parish Church Hall, on Main Road in Fairlie, was built in 1879 by architect William MacChlery, incorporating elements of an earlier church dating to 1843. A vestry was added to the south gable in 1877.

The building is a 4-bay Gothic church constructed from coursed red rubble, with contrasting yellow ashlar dressings and a harled south gable. A central gabled porch is located on the north gable, featuring a 2-leaf door with splayed reveals, a moulded arch, and a hood-mould. Above the porch is a tall, pointed window with intersecting tracery, with the hood-mould continuing as moulded eaves. Flanking the window are lancet alcoves, and a gabled bellcote sits at the apex. A square-headed, hood-moulded door is positioned to the left.

The west elevation features four buttressed bays. The buttresses are carried upwards as pilaster strips to a set-off gallery level (1879), and each bay has a single pointed window below a hood-moulded oculus. An oculus with a leaded panel (by Webster of Glasgow) is set into the south gable, and a gabled vestry is recessed to the right. This vestry is located behind a low wall of whin rubble, with spear-head iron railings sitting on an ashlar coping, along with pinnacled gatepiers.

The building was re-opened after alterations on 4th January 1880. Newspaper references relating to the building’s alterations appear in the Largs and Millport Weekly News of 10th January 1880.