Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

BARRHILL ROAD, ST BARTHOLOMEW'S (EPISCOPAL) CHURCH AND BOUNDARY WALLLB34001

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
10/06/1971
Local Authority
Inverclyde
Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Burgh
Gourock
NGR
NS 23929 77675
Coordinates
223929, 677675

Description

J C Sharp, 1857, extended H D Walton, circa 1895. Small 3-bay gothic church with later chancel and N aisle. Variegated sandstone, rubble with stugged and polished ashlar dressings, some harl pointing. Pointed ashlar mullions, chamfered reveals; battered buttresses with sawtooth coping; finialled gables; sawtooth coped skews; rounded skewputts. Reticulated tracery.

NAVE: 3-bay with small gabled stone porch to S, pointed-arch chamfered doorway; narrow bipartite windows with quatrefoil tracery flanking. W elevation gabled with buttress to centre rising to gabled and finialled apex bellcote, bipartite windows and diagonal buttresses flanking. 4 gabled bays to N divided by buttresses and with tripartite windows; single storey vestry to outer left, tripartite window with depressed lights on E return. Later single storey gabled addition to 1st gable.

CHANCEL: lower gabled chancel (circa 1895) with battered base course to E, tripartite traceried window, hoodmoulded with masque stops above. 2 narrow lancets on S return, secondary entrance on N return.

Square-pane leaded windows. Slate roof with lead flashings. Ornamental gutterheads.

INTERIOR: rendered walls with stone dressings; braced timber roof to chancel; elaborate cast- and wrought-iron rood screen; blind arcading to E wall with red marble colonnettes with foliate capitals; altar with blind arcade of squat marble colonnettes and tripartite gabled and crocketted reredos. Polygonal stone pulpit ornately carved with green marble columns. Stained glass windows to chancel and one bipartite window. Low rubble wall with later railings.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

References

Bibliography

F H Groome, ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, vol 3 (London, 1895), p203. Scottish Episcopal Church yearbook, 1889, p157. Signed drawing of

chancel in possession of St Bartholomew's.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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