View of E entrance to Ardbeg Baptist Church, Ardbeg Road, Ardbeg, Rothesay, Bute, from NE

Description View of E entrance to Ardbeg Baptist Church, Ardbeg Road, Ardbeg, Rothesay, Bute, from NE

Date 27/4/2011

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number DP 098708

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content The main focus for expansion in the outer reaches of Rothesay was along the shoreline, starting at the southern end of Ardbeg Road as development stretched towards Port Bannatyne. Most of the development here is in the form of tenements, detached and semi-detached houses. However, a range of ancillary buildings were built throughout the town to meet the various needs of the population -commercial, educational, leisure and religious. Ardbeg Baptist Church was built in 1855, with a hall and vestry added to the rear in 1923 by local architect George Milne MacLintock (1873-1941). Although fairly plain in appearance, the main feature of the church if the decorative cast-iron which adorns the roof ridges and gables. All are circular with quatrefoil design within, such as this pseudo-cross on the slightly projecting gable above the pointed-arched, roll-moulded front entrance door. The low front boundary wall to the church is also topped with decorative wrought-iron railings, and original triple cast-iron lamps on top of the end piers. The use of decorative cast-iron is a common feature throughout Rothesay's townscape, of which this is a rare example within the Ardbeg Area of Townscape Character.

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