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Portpatrick Church Hall, School Bare, Portpatrick

A Category C Listed Building in Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8429 / 54°50'34"N

Longitude: -5.1151 / 5°6'54"W

OS Eastings: 200078

OS Northings: 554231

OS Grid: NX000542

Mapcode National: GBR FHRX.7RF

Mapcode Global: WH1RF.DJGR

Plus Code: 9C6PRVVM+4X

Entry Name: Portpatrick Church Hall, School Bare, Portpatrick

Listing Name: School Brae, Portpatrick Church Hall (Former Free Church) Including Boundary Walls, Railings and Gate

Listing Date: 30 March 1998

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392027

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45205

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200392027

Location: Portpatrick

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins

Parish: Portpatrick

Traditional County: Wigtownshire

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Description

Richard Park, 1886-7. Gothic-style gabled rectangular-plan gabled Church Hall, converted from church, with 3-stage tower to N. Whinstone; sandstone ashlar dressings. Advanced base course.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to arched central roll moulded entrance; nook shafts; 2-leaf boarded shoulder-arched timber door with trefoil to arch head; hoodmould; pair of trefoil headed narrow lights flanking; buttress to outer right. Arched tracery window to gable; hoodmould; 1887 ribbon panel above; cross finial at apex. 3 stage tower to left; flanking buttresses to boarded timber door; letterbox fanlight; narrow pointed arch louvred light at 2nd stage; recessed clockface at 3rd octagonal stage; heavy corbelling (intended to carry spire). Mullioned window to single storey bay to outer left.

Plate glass and 3-pane timber sash and case and fixed windows, leaded and stained glass. Grey slate roof; stone skews; stack to outer left. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: paired leaded windows to SE; deep splayed nave windows to NE and SW; decorative corbels; infilled gallery.

BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE: rubble boundary wall to outer left. Decorative railings and gate with ball finials dividing sections.

Statement of Interest

Former Free Church built on site of church. The strong ashlar dressings, particularly to the tower, make the church a distinctive site on the main route to Portpatrick Harbour.

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