St Columba's Episcopal Church, Aubery Crescent, Largs is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Church.
St Columba's Episcopal Church, Aubery Crescent, Largs
- WRENN ID
- seventh-floor-solstice
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 200 603
- Coordinates
- 55.80264, -4.87214
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Columba's Episcopal Church, designed by architects Ross and MacBeth, was built in 1876 and features a simple Early English Gothic style. The church has a four-bay nave, a two-bay chancel, and a projecting south porch at the west end. It is constructed from snecked stugged ashlar with polished dressings. The porch includes a recessed pointed-headed door with squat nook shafts that support a moulded arch and hood-mould. Above the porch gable are three cusped, louvred openings. The nave and choir are adorned with paired cusped windows, and there are three-light windows at the east end. The roof is made of slate.
Inside, the altar features a marble reredos that is raised centrally with a gable above a cusped niche. The octagonal pulpit, organ framing, and chancel dado panelling are all made of oak and include Gothic detailing, fitted in 1930. The oak altar rails were added in 1938. Most of the windows have painted and leaded glass panels, including a crucifixion scene in the east window, portraits of saints Michael and Margaret from 1898, and saints George and Andrew from 1902, along with other memorial panels.
Local climate
St Columba's Episcopal Church, Aubery Crescent, Largs sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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