Irvine Baptist Chapel, Bank Street, Irvine is a Grade C listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1997. Chapel.
Irvine Baptist Chapel, Bank Street, Irvine
- WRENN ID
- dusted-mullion-willow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1997
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- NS 322 390
- Coordinates
- 55.61564, -4.66544
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Irvine Baptist Chapel, built in 1878, is a Greek Revival chapel. It features rubble sides and rear, while the front is made of ashlar with a base course, dividing pilasters, an impost course, channelled voussoirs, and an ashlar eaves course. The front has round-arched openings.
The central entrance has paired doors flanked by columns with crocketed capitals. Above the doors is a 3-light arcaded window with colonnette-mullions and annulets on the sides. The gablehead includes a carved semicircular panel and a large anthemion finial at the apex. The flanking bays have tall windows with cills at the same level as the doors.
The side elevations have a blank bay towards the rear and four tall windows on the remaining section. The rear features a wheel window in the chimney-headed gable and a border-glazed window.
The chapel has horizontal-pane windows with plate glass panes in the lower sections of the taller windows beneath the loft gallery. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a brick stack on the rear gable, along with remains of former metal ridge ventilators.
The interior was not seen in 1996.
Local climate
Irvine Baptist Chapel, Bank Street, Irvine sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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