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Latitude: 56.0441 / 56°2'38"N
Longitude: -4.5246 / 4°31'28"W
OS Eastings: 242838
OS Northings: 686341
OS Grid: NS428863
Mapcode National: GBR 0N.R9HF
Mapcode Global: WH3N5.GBNW
Plus Code: 9C8Q2FVG+J5
Entry Name: Gartocharn Church, Church Road, Gartocharn
Listing Name: Gartocharn Parish Church (Church of Scotland) with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 27 February 1997
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390574
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43920
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Gartocharn, Church Road, Gartocharn Church
ID on this website: 200390574
Location: Kilmaronock
County: West Dunbartonshire
Electoral Ward: Lomond
Parish: Kilmaronock
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Church building
Earlier 20th century. Gothic Arts and Crafts hall church. Stugged, squared and snecked red sandstone to front elevation; cement-rendered side elevations. Cusped-headed leaded windows. Stepped pedimented gable. Projecting eaves, exposed rafters.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stepped gabled bay at centre, framed by buttresses. Boarded 2-leaf door at ground, deeply chamfered door, flanking small lights; stepped hoodmould as string course. Large 3-light, 3-centre-arch window above, cusped heads to windows; louvred pointed arch window in gablehead. Flanking blank bays of hall body of church, buttress; projecting eaves.
W ELEVATIONS: cement-rendered with red sandstone. Wide sandstone buttress to outer right, small leaded window at centre. 4-bay nave to left, cusp-headed windows; advanced gabled transept to outer left, 3-light window.
E ELEVATION: as W elevation; vestry.
Multi-paned leaded windows. Grey slate roof, lead flashings. Ashlar coping to skews.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low rubble boundary wall with boulder coping. Pink sandstone gatepiers, depressed pyramidal caps.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The church was built as the United Free Church. It serves as the summer church for Kilmaronock Parish. The church and manse at Kilmaronock are listed separately. The fomer United Free Church manse is listed separately.
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