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Irvine Baptist Chapel, Bank Street, Irvine

A Category C Listed Building in Irvine, North Ayrshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6156 / 55°36'56"N

Longitude: -4.6655 / 4°39'55"W

OS Eastings: 232230

OS Northings: 639007

OS Grid: NS322390

Mapcode National: GBR 38.M8GL

Mapcode Global: WH2P3.93LT

Plus Code: 9C7QJ88M+7R

Entry Name: Irvine Baptist Chapel, Bank Street, Irvine

Listing Name: Bank Street, Irvine Baptist Chapel

Listing Date: 24 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 391247

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44633

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200391247

Location: Irvine

County: North Ayrshire

Town: Irvine

Electoral Ward: Irvine West

Traditional County: Ayrshire

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Description

Dated 1878. Greek revival chapel. Rubble sides and rear, ashlar front with base course, dividing pilasters, impost course, channelled voussoirs and ashlar eaves course; round-arched openings.

Paired doors to centre with columns flanking and crocketed capitals; 3-light arcaded window above with colonnette-mullions and flanks with annulets; carved semicircular panel in gablehead and large anthemion finial carved at apex; flanking bays with tall windows with cills at impost level of doors.

Side elevations with blank bay towards rear and 4 tall windows to remainder of elevation. Wheel window to rear chimneyheaded gable, border-glazed window.

Horizontal-pane windows with plate glass panes to lower sections of taller windows under loft gallery. Grey slates; brick stack to rear gable; remains of former metal ridge ventilators.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The chapel evidently replaced an earlier chapel of 1839 (Groome).

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