Description

Richard Park, 1886-7. Gothic-style gabled rectangular-plan gabled Church Hall, converted from church, with 3-stage tower to N. Whinstone; sandstone ashlar dressings. Advanced base course.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to arched central roll moulded entrance; nook shafts; 2-leaf boarded shoulder-arched timber door with trefoil to arch head; hoodmould; pair of trefoil headed narrow lights flanking; buttress to outer right. Arched tracery window to gable; hoodmould; 1887 ribbon panel above; cross finial at apex. 3 stage tower to left; flanking buttresses to boarded timber door; letterbox fanlight; narrow pointed arch louvred light at 2nd stage; recessed clockface at 3rd octagonal stage; heavy corbelling (intended to carry spire). Mullioned window to single storey bay to outer left.

Plate glass and 3-pane timber sash and case and fixed windows, leaded and stained glass. Grey slate roof; stone skews; stack to outer left. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: paired leaded windows to SE; deep splayed nave windows to NE and SW; decorative corbels; infilled gallery.

BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE: rubble boundary wall to outer left. Decorative railings and gate with ball finials dividing sections.

Statement of Interest

Former Free Church built on site of church. The strong ashlar dressings, particularly to the tower, make the church a distinctive site on the main route to Portpatrick Harbour.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77771334

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey