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St Paul's Episcopal Church, Victoria Street, Rothesay, Bute

A Category B Listed Building in Rothesay, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8378 / 55°50'15"N

Longitude: -5.057 / 5°3'25"W

OS Eastings: 208666

OS Northings: 664733

OS Grid: NS086647

Mapcode National: GBR FFW8.Y3C

Mapcode Global: WH1LM.9J4J

Plus Code: 9C7PRWQV+45

Entry Name: St Paul's Episcopal Church, Victoria Street, Rothesay, Bute

Listing Name: Victoria Street, St Paul's Episcopal Church Including Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 24 March 1997

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 391617

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44895

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Bute, Rothesay, Victoria Street, St Paul's Episcopal Church

ID on this website: 200391617

Location: Rothesay

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Rothesay

Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute

Traditional County: Buteshire

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Description

Mid to later 19th century. Near-symmetrical, single bay simple Gothic style, gabled Episcopal church with 4-bay buttressed sides; engaged octagonal 3-stage tower to right; gabletted belfry pinnacle; lower single storey, single bay addition at rear. Droved yellow sandstone to front; polished sandstone dressings. Raised ashlar base course (coped rubble plinth at side); later single storey coursed render pitched porch centred at ground. Harl-pointed rubble at sides and rear; droved yellow sandstone quoins; tooled long and short surrounds to openings; droved buttresses. Architraved hoodmoulds above pointed-arch openings; chamfered reveals; stone mullions to bipartites; plate tracery; trefoil-headed belfry windows.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced porch centred at ground comprising central single pointed-arch window; flanking buttresses; timber door with trefoil-headed panelling in re-entrant angle to right. Figurative label-stopped hoodmould surmounting bipartite window centred beneath 1st floor apex; crucifix finial. Engaged tower to outer right comprising single window at ground set in NW facet; single windows at 1st floor set in N and W facets; tall belfry windows in each facet at 3rd floor (part louvred, part blind); sandstone finial surmounting tapering tower.

W (DEAN HOOD PLACE) ELEVATION: single trefoil-headed windows at ground in penultimate bay to outer right and bay to outer left; pointed-arch bipartite windows in penultimate bay to outer left and bay to outer right; buttresses set between. Single window centred in addition to outer right; flanking smaller buttresses.

Part-stained leaded windows. Graded grey slate roof; raised skews; slate-hung porch.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped, part-rendered wall enclosing site to N and W; cast-iron railings.

Statement of Interest

A small but nevertheless, interesting church which breaks the continuity of the uniform classical terrace to its left. Note the stained windows, architraved windows, octagonal belfry tower and stone tracery.

Rothesay is one of Scotland's premier seaside resorts, developed primarily during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and incorporates an earlier medieval settlement. The town retains a wide range of buildings characteristic of its development as a high status 19th century holiday resort, including a range of fine villas, a Victorian pier and promenade.

The history and development of Rothesay is defined by two major phases. The development of the medieval town, centred on Rothesay Castle, and the later 19th and early 20th century development of the town as a seaside resort. Buildings from this later development, reflect the wealth of the town during its heyday as a tourist destination, and include a range of domestic and commercial architecture of a scale sometimes found in larger burghs. Both the 19th and early 20th century growth of the town, with a particular flourish during the inter-war period, included areas of reclaimed foreshore, particularly along the coast to the east of the town and around the pier and pleasure gardens.

(List description revised as part of Rothesay listing review 2010-11).

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