Former Arnsheen Church, Barrhill is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 October 2010. Church. 5 related planning applications.
Former Arnsheen Church, Barrhill
- WRENN ID
- moated-moulding-burdock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 October 2010
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former Arnsheen Church in Barrhill, designed by Robert Samson Ingram in 1887, is a Scottish Baronial building with a cruciform shape and crow-stepped gables. It features a four-stage clock tower at the southeast corner and is located on a small rise at the northwest entrance to the village. The church is constructed from coursed whinstone with contrasting sandstone ashlar margins and includes a base course. The windows are mostly bi-partite with round-arched openings, and there is a gabled single-storey vestry at the rear.
The entrance elevation faces southwest and is asymmetrical. It has a central gabled entrance porch with a moulded round-arched doorpiece and a two-leaf slatted timber entrance door. To the right, the tower has an asymmetrical castellated parapet, a band course, and a chevroned moulding along the cornice, with a louvred opening at the third stage. The corners of the canted fourth stage feature incised crosses.
At the rear, there is a recessed gabled entrance hall that lies perpendicular to the entrance porch, leading to a taller gabled section with a decorative rose window.
Inside, as observed in 2010, most furnishings have been removed, revealing an open-timber ceiling, a decorative timber pulpit, and an organ case. Some panelled timber round-arched doors remain, along with a turnpike stair leading to the tower. The windows predominantly feature small leaded coloured glass panes. The roof is covered with purple graded slates and red ridge tiles, and the cast-iron rainwater goods include decorative hoppers.
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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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