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

KING STREET EAST, BAPTIST CHURCHLB34802

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
30/06/1993
Local Authority
Argyll And Bute
Planning Authority
Argyll And Bute
Burgh
Helensburgh
NGR
NS 29742 82485
Coordinates
229742, 682485

Description

D Abercrombie, 1886. Rectangular-plan, 3-bay gothic church with tower to SE angle and 2-storey church hall and vestry to rear (N). Squared, stugged and snecked cream sandstone, droved ashlar dressings. Base and eaves courses, pointed-arch windows, chamfered arrises, hoodmoulds with floreate label-stops.

S (KING STREET EAST/ENTRANCE) ELEAVTION: tall gabled bay to centre with tower to outer right and aisle window to outer left. 4-centred arch doorway to centre with chamfered reveals, 2-leaf boarded doors and set in advanced gabled surround with off-set piers, ashlar coped skew, bracketted skewputts and floreate finial to gable apex. Tall pointed-arch window above with 3-light cusped geometric tracery, small niche to gablehead. Lower single bay to outer left with lancet window, divided from centre bay by off-set buttress; angle buttress flanking to left. Tower to outer right see below.

TOWER: 2 stage with octagonal drum and ashlar finialled spire; off-set diagonal buttresses surmounted by puramidal ashlar finials above 2nd stage. S elevation Y-tracery window at ground, oculus above with quatrefoil tracery, hoodmould course over. W elevation; similarly detailed oculus to 2nd stage. Drum with narrow round-headed louvered lucarnes to S, E, and W, corblled course above stepped to gablets over lucarnes.

W AND E ELEVATIONS: 5 windows with Y-tracery, door to vestry to far left; (4 windows to E elevation).

VESTRY AND CHURCH HALL: W elevation; door to right, window above at 1st floor with etched glazing depicting the River Jordan. Advanced blank bay to outer left.

E ELEVATION: 2 windows to vestry, window to church hall above at 1st floor.

Lead diamond pane glazing to church. Grey slate roof, ashlar coped skews, bracketted skewputts.

INTERIOR: simply furnished with timber benches and gothic decoration to reredos. Stained glass to W window (1906) celebrating the foundation of the Zenana Mission in India by Rev John Sale.

References

Bibliography

Dumbarton District Library, Dean of Guild Drawings for Helensburgh

(Box Date 1883-1889).

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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

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