General view of North Bute Parish Church, Shore Road, Port Bannatyne, Bute, from N

Description General view of North Bute Parish Church, Shore Road, Port Bannatyne, Bute, from N

Date 22/5/2012

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number DP 137225

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Originally known as Kamesburgh, Port Bannatyne grew up as a fishing village to the north-west of the main town of Rothesay. However, during the 19th century, when Rothesay's popularity as a tourist destination and a pleasant place to live by the seaside was at its peak, the town stretched out to join up the coastal strip between Port Bannatyne in the north-west and Ascog in the south-east. In addition to the need for accommodation, the growing population had their other needs serviced with transport, commercial and leisure services developing in all areas of the town. This included the erection of several churches of all denominations. This is the North Bute Parish Church, also known as St Colmac, St Bruoc and St Ninian's. Built in 1886 to designs by William McGibbon, this Gothic/Tudor church has a tall square-plan tower to the south-east adjoining a gabled nave with a large plate-traveried window and topped by a cruciform finial to the gablehead. The church has retained much of the original fittings internally, including its pews, pointed-arch arcades to the aisles, decorative cast-iron balustraded stair to upper gallery and timber-boarded hammerbeam roof.

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