Cove And Kilcreggan, Shore Road, Craigrownie Parish Church
Church (Period Unassigned), Church Hall (Period Unassigned), War Memorial(S) (20th Century)
Site Name Cove And Kilcreggan, Shore Road, Craigrownie Parish Church
Classification Church (Period Unassigned), Church Hall (Period Unassigned), War Memorial(S) (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Church Of Scotland; Craigrownie Parish Church Hall; United Presbyterian Church; War Memorial Plaques
Canmore ID 197934
Site Number NS28SW 46
NGR NS 22487 80863
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/197934
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Rosneath
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS28SW 46 22487 80863
Not to be confused with Craigrownie Church on School Road (NS28SW 19) at NS 22420 81053).
NMRS REFERENCE:
Architects: Honeyman & Keppie (additions) 1889
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Gabled, hall-church, originally built for United Presbyterian Church, now church hall. Long rectangular-plan aligned NE-SW. Rubble with pink sandstone, droved margins; base course; chamfered reveals, quoin strips, projecting timber eaves. Leaded lying-pane glazing; grey slate roof, terracotta ridge coping, wooden eaves; variegated patterned slate at porch.
GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: 2 stylised robust irregular pairs of gatepiers at N and S; vertically laid ashlar masonry with stugged sandstone bands, stone ogival caps with polished ashlar finials (finial missing from outer right pier); slightly battered base. Gatepiers to outer left and right substantially larger, swept down to fasten at smaller pier only, remaining gate to outer right, timber construction, hanging post with 2 boarded panels with cast-iron reinforcements.
Rubble whinstone boundary wall with harl-pointed boulder coping with some sea boulders.
The building was built as a United Presbyterian Church in 1869 but now functions as Craigrownie Church Hall. The gatepiers are closely modelled on the design for gatepiers by Alexander Thomson illustrated in VILLA AND COTTAGE ARCHITECTURE. (Historic Scotland)
Photographic Survey (July 1961)
Photographs of buildings in Cove and Kilcreggan, Dunbartonshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in July 1961.
