Free Church Of Scotland, Bennecarrigan, Arran is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 August 1995. Church.

Free Church Of Scotland, Bennecarrigan, Arran

WRENN ID
mired-crypt-jackdaw
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 August 1995
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NR 942 221
Coordinates
55.44941, -5.25512
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Free Church of Scotland in Bennecarrigan, Arran, is a simple Gothic church built in the late 19th century. It has a rectangular plan and is constructed of random rubble sandstone with red ashlar dressings, topped with a grey slate roof. The church features buttresses, a moulded cill course on the west gable, a wallhead course, and ashlar-coped skews with gablet skewblocks. A corbelled pointed-arch bellcote is located on the west gable, and there are single lancet windows with leaded glazing, along with a three-light stepped lancet window on the west gable that includes hoodmoulds and label stops.

On the southeast elevation, there are five bays, with a gabled and finialled entrance porch located in the second bay from the left. This porch has a window and a shouldered-arch doorcase on its left return. The west gable features a three-light stepped lancet window and the bellcote. The east gable includes a small single-storey gabled outshot with a window. The northeast elevation has five windows. The interior has not been seen. The property is enclosed by rubble boundary walls.

Local climate

Free Church Of Scotland, Bennecarrigan, Arran sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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