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Fairlie Parish Church Hall, Main Road, Fairlie

A Category C Listed Building in Largs, North Ayrshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7571 / 55°45'25"N

Longitude: -4.8543 / 4°51'15"W

OS Eastings: 220987

OS Northings: 655221

OS Grid: NS209552

Mapcode National: GBR 31.B7J2

Mapcode Global: WH2N7.DKNC

Plus Code: 9C7QQ44W+V7

Entry Name: Fairlie Parish Church Hall, Main Road, Fairlie

Listing Name: Fairlie Village Fairlie Parish Church Hall (Former Free Church)

Listing Date: 29 August 1985

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 339136

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7291

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200339136

Location: Largs

County: North Ayrshire

Electoral Ward: North Coast and Cumbraes

Parish: Largs

Traditional County: Ayrshire

Tagged with: Church hall

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Description

William MacChlery, architect, 1879, incorporating 1843 church
at ground storey; vestry added to south gable 1877 (dated).
4-bay Gothic church built of coursed red rubble with
contrasting yellow ashlar dressings, harled south gable.
Central gabled porch on north gable; 2-leaf door with
splayed reveals, moulded arch and hood-mould. Tall pointed
window with intersecting tracery, hood-mould continued as
moulded eaves; flanking lancet alcoves; gabled apex
bellcote. Square-headed and hood-moulded door in addition
to left.
West elevation: 4 buttressed bays, buttresses carried upwards
as pilaster strips at set-off gallery (1879) level, each bay
has single pointed window below hood-moulded oculus.
Oculus with leaded panel (by Webster of Glasgow) in south
gable; gabled low vestry recessed at right. Set behind whin
rubble wall with spear-head iron railings on ashlar coping.
Pinnacled gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Opened after alterations 4.1.1880.

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