St John's Parish Church And Hall, Church Street, Lochwinnoch is a Grade A listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 June 1971. Church.
St John's Parish Church And Hall, Church Street, Lochwinnoch
- WRENN ID
- old-portal-yarrow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1971
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St John's Parish Church and Hall, built between 1806 and 1808, is an irregular octagonal structure made of rubble with ashlar margins. The church features a three-stage square tower with a faceted spire located at the northeast corner. A tall, arched, rusticated porch leads to a round-headed door with a fanlight, flanked by open Roman Doric porches. The second stage of the tower has a panelled plinth, pilasters at the corners, and louvered belfry openings framed by architraves with consoled pediments on each face. The third stage includes a clock on each face set within a panel and a faceted spire atop a low octagonal stage. The ground floor has rectangular windows behind the flanking porches, while the remaining windows are segmental-headed, with square-headed windows above. The building features 12 and 16-pane sash windows, an eaves band, a cornice, and a blocking course, all topped by a piended and platform slate roof.
At the rear of the church is a low session house that connects to a single-storey, five-bay buttressed Gothic hall added in 1901, designed by architect John MacLelland of Kilbirnie. This hall is constructed of bullfaced snecked ashlar with polished dressings, featuring a porch with a pointed-headed door on the northwest gable and pointed-arched windows on the northeast wall. The hall has moulded skews with gableted skewputts and cross-finialed gables, along with a slate roof.
Inside the church, there is a panelled gallery supported by wooden Roman Doric columns. An organ by Foster & Andrews was installed in 1885, with pipes located behind the pulpit. The pulpit is flanked by stained glass windows at both ground and gallery levels. The ground-level windows depict themes of the Resurrection (circa 1928) and the Good Samaritan (circa 1913), while the gallery windows illustrate The Sower (circa 1883) and The Reaper (circa 1888). A southeast gable window from the hall, acquired in 1947 from the demolished former West church, features a Good Shepherd theme.
The church bell, cast by John Wilson & Co. in Glasgow in 1810, was recast in 1849 and again in 1903.
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